HP Pavilion 8575C had 98SE, upgrading to XP (Riptide Modem/Sound) Comments??

[TangleWeb]

A little late maybe, but I had just loaded XP sp2 on a Pavilion 8670c 600 mhz, 133 bus with 128 mb of ram. It had the RIPTIDE sound/modem and the original HP ethernet card. It also had the 4x hp writer. I had no problems at all loading XP SP1 then SP2 . I loaded SP1 from a CD and SP2 form the internet. Works great with a 802.11g card I installed for WI-FI . It also has a USB mouse and HP keyboard.
I did NOT relaod the proprietary HP software that supports the keyboard though since it has been reported to have spyware built into it. (Netropa). All else (modem, sound and CD burner) works great.

I also have the same HP 8670c but I upgraded the bios to a newer April 2004 non hp bios from esupport.com ... IT too works fine and will be adding a multi boot system so I can use win98se, linux and WIN XP sp2 on it. I have 384 mb of ram and 4 hard drives off a Promise card. I replaced the riptide with another modem card, installed a Sound blaster 16 card, added an HP CD write 9500.
Soon I will be replacing the original DVD rom with a Sony DVD burner.
All works to my specs for now.

Hope this helps.......

Rich

hope this info helps......

Rich

It is interesting how long this thread remains useful

You have a good point that sp1 & 2 probably added native support for the “Riptide” modem\sound card combo. It has been a while since I have run across one of these. I now use Windows XP with service pack 2 slipstreamed. This sure reduces the time required for the initial installation & Windows Update.

It is interesting that you found a third party BIOS for this PC; I will keep that in mind for the future as well. I would be interested to hear what added functionality the BIOS update provided. I see you are using a Promise IDE controller card, did the BIOS update not provide support for the larger drives, or were you going for the increased speed of the Promise card?

~Dave

[rwswork1]

It is interesting how long this thread remains useful

You have a good point that sp1 & 2 probably added native support for the “Riptide” modem\sound card combo. It has been a while since I have run across one of these. I now use Windows XP with service pack 2 slipstreamed. This sure reduces the time required for the initial installation & Windows Update.

It is interesting that you found a third party BIOS for this PC; I will keep that in mind for the future as well. I would be interested to hear what added functionality the BIOS update provided. I see you are using a Promise IDE controller card, did the BIOS update not provide support for the larger drives, or were you going for the increased speed of the Promise card?

~Dave

I use the Promise card to not only achieve 133 mhz bus speeds for my hard drives, but also I can have up to 6 hard drives at once without a raid. I've got 4 right now. This system has been upgraded more out of fun to see how far I could tweak it. If I were to go any further, it would mean a new Mother board. I'm actually waiting to see the results of Intels new 1028 mhz FSB due out next month. It funny, but I do not have nay bottle necks on this thing. Everything works well. I have a HP 9500i cd writer, generic DVD player, Nvidia video with TV in & out. MAxed the Ram to 384 mb (which I still didn't get a straight answere from HP on what caused the cap). THe new bios only would allow me to tweak the memory more than the standard AWARD that came with it. Esupport.com said to check back with them in 6 months to see if there is an upgrade but I suspect not. Not too many of these out there and what is there is fading out. I can get a 1.2 ghz non Intel for about $300. I just did that for my sister about 6 months ago. THere are Lindows and other Linux dedicated PC's out there that can be converted to XP. Add speakers and a CRT and you have a complete system.

Let me know if you decide to go the bios route. The usual pitfalls of burning (FLASH) are there and if it screws up you are SOL.

Rich

[TangleWeb]

Man, you really have that HP maxed out!

I do not have a Pavilion in at the moment & don't own one myself. As you say, new stuff is so cheap now, that major upgrades are seldom worth the trouble.

I installed a PC CHIPS M811 socket A motherboard based on the VIA KT266A chipset in a case for a guy whose motherboard failed. I upgraded his CPU to an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ @1.67GHz & it runs GREAT! I normally shy away from PC CHIPS, but this board really works well & it was $25 + $4.00 shipping from Newegg. The CPU was $61 shipped free from the same vendor. He had a pair of inexpensive 512mb PC3200 RAM sticks for 1024mb total & he bought a Maxtor 8mb cache 200 GB hard drive on sale at Staples for a pretty hot system for not much money.

~Dave

I use the Promise card to not only achieve 133 mhz bus speeds for my hard drives, but also I can have up to 6 hard drives at once without a raid. I've got 4 right now. This system has been upgraded more out of fun to see how far I could tweak it. If I were to go any further, it would mean a new Mother board. I'm actually waiting to see the results of Intels new 1028 mhz FSB due out next month. It funny, but I do not have nay bottle necks on this thing. Everything works well. I have a HP 9500i cd writer, generic DVD player, Nvidia video with TV in & out. MAxed the Ram to 384 mb (which I still didn't get a straight answere from HP on what caused the cap). THe new bios only would allow me to tweak the memory more than the standard AWARD that came with it. Esupport.com said to check back with them in 6 months to see if there is an upgrade but I suspect not. Not too many of these out there and what is there is fading out. I can get a 1.2 ghz non Intel for about $300. I just did that for my sister about 6 months ago. THere are Lindows and other Linux dedicated PC's out there that can be converted to XP. Add speakers and a CRT and you have a complete system.

Let me know if you decide to go the bios route. The usual pitfalls of burning (FLASH) are there and if it screws up you are SOL.

Rich

[rwswork1]

Man, you really have that HP maxed out!

I do not have a Pavilion in at the moment & don't own one myself. As you say, new stuff is so cheap now, that major upgrades are seldom worth the trouble.

I installed a PC CHIPS M811 socket A motherboard based on the VIA KT266A chipset in a case for a guy whose motherboard failed. I upgraded his CPU to an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ @1.67GHz & it runs GREAT! I normally shy away from PC CHIPS, but this board really works well & it was $25 + $4.00 shipping from Newegg. The CPU was $61 shipped free from the same vendor. He had a pair of inexpensive 512mb PC3200 RAM sticks for 1024mb total & he bought a Maxtor 8mb cache 200 GB hard drive on sale at Staples for a pretty hot system for not much money.

~Dave

Yea like I said mynext upgrade will be a new motherboard. I use my PC for video editing, that is why I would love a 1028 FSB. I use SANDRA to tweak. For a freebee its not too bad. I was going to upgrade my memory to pc133 from pc100, but there is not that much difference in speed. I pretty much have maxed out this PC. I might install a DVD recorder now that they are so cheap. Makes backing up a snap to one DVD for the entire OS.

well back to grind stone.......