COMPAQ Prolinea 5120 Pentium Windows 95 desktop PC - ISA PCI parallel LPT vintage retro 90s

For sale
COMPAQ Prolinea 5120 pc.
 
General info
The COMPAQ Prolinea was a line of business-oriented personal computers. The series was discontinued in 1997 after the release of the Deskpro 2000 series.
 
About this specific offer
This offer consists of a COMPAQ Prolinea 5120, a very solid (metal chassis and enclosure), expandable corporate grade multimedia desktop pc, also known as series 3511V5. It has a date stamps inside from late 1995 and was manufactured in the U.K. The pc is almost completely standard and can be customized for your needs. This computer can be used for DOS retro gaming and it's equipped with a Sound Blaster Pro compatible audio card. It can also be used for most legacy business applications from the 90's that require MS-DOS, Windows 3.x or Windows 95. Whatever you look for, this COMPAQ pc has more than enough room for your needs: you can add a 5.25'' FDD, a faster CPU, a better PCI graphics card, an ethernet adapter etc. The pc is equipped with a VGA output and can display a nice picture on a conventional 4:3 flatscreen monitor. It also has a switchable power supply, so it can operate in various regions, including Europe and the United States.
  
Specifications:
 
- 100-120V / 220-240V AC power supply
- Intel Pentium 120 MHz socket 5 / 7 CPU
- Socket 5
- 256 KB onboard L2 cache
- 32 MB RAM (4x 8 MB 72-pin SIMM RAM module)
- 6x 72-pin SIMM RAM module socket (max. ? MB)
- Quantum Fireball 1080AT 1GB PATA HDD
- COMPAQ 1.44 MB FDD
- COMPAQ CR-587 24x IDE CD-ROM drive
- 2x PATA connector
- Matrox Millenium 2 MB graphics PCI card
- 2x PCI slot
- COMPAQ Premier Sound ESS Audiodrive ES1869F 16-bit ISA card
- 4x ISA slot
- Empty 5.25'' drive slot
- Integrated beeper
- BR2335 lithium clock battery
- VGA HD-15 socket
- DA-26 socket
- Parallel DB-25 socket
- Serial DE-9 connector
- PS/2 keyboard port
- PS/2 mouse port
- Speakers out 3.5 mm jack
- Line in 3.5 mm jack
- Headphones 3.5 mm jack
- Mic in 3.5 mm jack

Dimension (WxDxH): 45 x 39.5 x 15 cm

Without operating system.
 
Included is:
- COMPAQ Prolinea 5120
 
Condition
Used.
 
Technical
This pc was last tested at 10 February 2021.

During the test;
 
- Computer could be powered on several times.
 
- Computer stayed powered on for at least 1 hour.

- Computer did not make any unusual noises, fan worked fine.

- Computer displayed a stable, contrastful, bright, sharp and straight picture without distortions.

- POST displayed 32 MB RAM with empty clock battery and system options not set related errors. The clock battery will need to be replaced (a new one will need to be soldered on the system board)

- Beeper worked.

- Keyboard port worked fine.

- Disk drive insert and eject mechanism worked fine.

- Disk drive read fine.

- Hard drive read and wrote fine.

- PC could boot to COMPAQ diagnostics and setup programs.

- CD-ROM drive tray opened and closed fine.

- No battery leakage inside the pc could be found.

- No rust in or on the pc could be found.

- Case could be opened and closed like it should.

- No further defects and/or faults were identified.
 
- No further tests were performed.

Cosmetic
Please carefully view the pictures for an impression.