BeOS 5 Pro booting on my Optiplex GX1

Quick low quality video of BeOS 5 pro booting on my Dell Optiplex GX1, with the casing mostly removed no less.

Specs:
Proc - 500MHz PIII
RAM - 256MB
HDD - 10GB slim seagate
Optical - CD-ROM and CD-RW (not connected)
Video/Enet/IDE/etc all onboard

And it's all fully supported under Be)S 5 pro, yay!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• beos
• dell
• optiplex
• fast
• boot
• gx1

[tsm32383]

wow slow bios

[john8520]

nah the bios is pretty snappy, the slow part is checking the ram.

[strike4may]

wtf beos is

[john8520]

Be Operating System

[legokidnaruto]

sorry but you have a crapy pc!

[john8520]

It's not crappy, it's just really really old. It's not my main machine, either.

Back in 1998 you would have died to own this machine. ;)

[DAREALJMONEY]

Hey I just picked up an Optiplex GX1 but it has a password login required from the previous owner do you know how I can bypass this or reset it so I can get access?

[bacovia2004]

@john8520 had one of these pc,i wish i kept it....

[tweetyaja]

BeOS; later renamed to Haiku Operating System!

[jonvincent12]

Holy crap. I haven't used this since I had Win98SE on an IBM PC 300PL. It booted slowly and wasn't compatible. But I still like it.

[MetallicBill]

@didyaronamus I've never had luck getting Ubuntu to format, and I've bought a few, Linux based, but I go back to Windows, it's just so easy, really

[MetallicBill]

@john8520 More like looking for the IDE drives, if you go into Dell's BIOS turn off AUTO to skip a drive you know is not connected, it speeds it up a lot!! The RAM checking on Compaqs is much slower then on a Dell, it counts each MB in a second's time! On screen helpfully however.

I have one that shared a similar case to the GX110s, but it's more similar to the Dell GXa model, that one used a large tower and PCI/ISA riser along the bottom

[strogg6458]

i love beos. forever....: /

[DARKTHC]

LOL, I got a Dell Optiplex GX1 someone gave me (they were going to throw it out ) Using as a web server ! Also downloaded BeOS 5 Personal ... :)

[4C7X]

@john8520 hit space

[MultiYippee]

@tsm32383 If you change the setting in the CMOS to not skip compatibility tests, it will be slow, otherwiseit is very fast.