HP Omnibook 3000CTX

Posted by Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit | retrobattlestations | View on Reddit | 6 comments

Intel Pentium MMX operating at 200 MHz with around "97mb" ram?

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Amiga_Freak@reddit

That's an unusual number of RAM.

97280 / 1024 = 95.

I once had a computer with a 32 MB and a 64 MB module installed, which makes 96. But 95 is unusual. Am I missing something?

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mbaran@reddit

97280+1024/1024 does equal 96MB though. It could be shadowing some of the video memory of the video card has 1MB on board and uses 1MB of system memory.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

Yeah indeed there probably is 32+64 installed so i am guessing it seems to vary from 95/96 from different bios vendors? OR 95 is actually usable and the 1mb is reserved for something else? idk

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Aggravating-Exit-660@reddit

It’s hard to remember a time when HP was not garbage

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit (OP)

I was gonna show it along with that controller in the left corner of picture 3 but i was unable to get windows to find the CD-ROM for some reason so i couldn't even install the drivers. Inside there is a 16gb CF card. This laptop doesn't have both a floppy and disc drive which is really annoying. It has a multi-bay thing where you can swap the optical disk for a floppy/zip drive etc. I don't have those unfortunately so i had to install windows through another laptop and then i installed it into this Omnibook 3000.

I also added an Omnibook 3000 driver pack but i can't get the sound drivers to work which sucks. I have no clue how to identify the sound card inside but it should be crystal sound - according to the driver pack. Graphics driver is Neomagic 128XD.

The card is sound blaster compatible as i can run DUKE3D with both music and sound fx playing! I just had to edit some of the sound settings like IRQ/DMA.

If anyone has drivers for both cdrom and sound then that would be appreciated.