HP m7760n Media Center Personal Computer - $1,600 (Ridge at Central)

Purchase Date: 2007-02-19

Was on and running clear up until Windows Vista was no longer updated and in particular Flash Player was no longer updated.

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THIS PC RUNS WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM. Always has. Always will.
Always will because Windows update is where you get Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2.
Update don't work no more.
Service Pack 2 is a requirement to Upgrade to Windows 7.
SO VISTA USERS ARE JUST PLAIN STUCK THERE WITH VISTA.

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And if you install Windows without using the original OS Disk Set; YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE HP MEDIA CENTER PARTITION ON THE HARD DRIVE. YOU NO LONGER HAVE A MEDIA CENTER PC.

If you change out the motherboard; YOU NO LONGER HAVE A MEDIA CENTER PC, because that original OS is not going to let you install the OS in what basically will be some other brand of tower.

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YOU WOULD NOT EVER WANT TO UPGRADE WINDOWS.

YOU WOULD MOST DEFINANTELLY WANT TO ONLY EVER REINSTALL FROM THE OFFICIAL HP RECOVERY DVD DISKS; OR YOUR OWN WINDOWS VISTA MADE RECOVERY THUMB-DRIVE; OR YOUR OWN home made ISO file (So as that you have a copy of every software and every file; At least from the date you created that ISO.

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THIS PC CAN NOT GO ONTO THE INTERNET WORTH A DARN.

It was able to way back when Adobe Flash Player upgrades were still making webpages function.

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When television broadcasting changed from analog to digital; ---------
It pretty much forced everyone to go out and get an newer PC when Flash could not even show you a webpage anymore.

THIS PC CAN ONLY BE AN AIR-GAP COMPUTER; Or hard wire to YOUR OWN SERVER.

People seem to be MAKING THESE BE A PART OF THEIR HOME THEATER.

IMO In my opinion: As far as an over the air antenna channel VCR, DVR type recording device goes, one of those TABLO brand DVR systems would be better than this Media Center PC, by a large margin.

Or, the easy to use servers you get for free when you use a ROKU device (The ROKU Channels called PLEX and called EMBY.), would be better than a big old clunker of a Media Center PC.

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SO JUST EXACTELLY WHY AM I ASKING FOR A COLLECTOR LEVEL VALUATION PRICE?

But these things were and still are the Lamborghini of personal computers.

THIS MACHINE WAS A PART OF TELEVISION HISTORY.

The HP Media Center PC was a part of television history.

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Well to start off with: We paid two thousand for the tower. We paid another hundred for the Personal Media Drive. We bought a monitor and a printer also. So we spent twenty-five hundred on day one.

Had it for years. Got value for money.

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What is EXTRA SPECIAL and COOL about these Media Center PCs is THAT THEY HAVE A TV TUNER CARD, and HP software specially for Media Center PCs.

THIS Media Center PC has a special pull out drive, which allowed you to take your drive around and share the hours of television that you had recorded.

THIS MACHINE WAS A PART OF TELEVISION HISTORY.

When they took away analog television broadcasting, and forced us to start using that junky and stuttering and screen-locking and buffering thing that they call Digital Broadcasting, and no one could use their VCRs anymore short of placing a Digital Television Signal Converter Box into your VCR.

YEAH! THAT TIME AND PLACE!

Having this COOL, NEW, type of a VCR or DVR was like WAY COOL DUDE!

This was THE THING, THE COOL THING, THE IT THING, right up until everyone got totally tired of THOSE WORTHLESS OVER THE AIR SIGNALS, and were all BASICALLY FORCED TO BUY CABLE.

Well then cable started to offer DVR stuffs.

And Windows and or Flash Player would not let a Windows XP, , Vista, 7, ME, machine see anything on the internet anymore.

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BUT FOR MANY YEARS: I ran a TV antenna into this tower, and set it to catch a few television shows.
One would just open TV Guide dot com and the TV Tuner Schedule in Windows VISTA Media Center; And tell it to catch that just the once, or tell it to catch that every single week, or every single week day, or YOU COULD EVEN TELL IT TO CATCH THAT EVERY SINGLE TIME IT COMES ON ON THAT CHANNEL OR EVEN TELL IT TO CATCH THAT NO MATTER WHAT CHANNEL IT SHOWS UP ON.

Like I said: "WAY COOL DUDE!".

I even ran a boom box into the tower and recorded songs by the hour and then used editing software to separate the home recording from the commercials and the talking.

Yep! Just like good old 8-Track Tape and then later Cassette.

THIS THING WAS THE COOLEST THING!

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Let me tell a little about me fixing this thing back up.

I just sunk a few hundred into fixing it back up.

Life's history:

Lost a power supply; Had a shop fix it.

Lost the HHD; Parked the tower for years.

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I am usually a: "Use it up; Wear it out; Make do; or Do without.", kind of folks.

But these things were and still are the Lamborghini of personal computers.

YOU FIX THAT; YOU FIX THAT NO MATTER HOW TORE-UP FROM THE FLOOR UP IT HAPPENS TO BE!

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So I decided to make it whole once again. And I did!

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I had to get ahold of HP and purchase a RECOVERY DISK SET.

I had to buy a brand new Power Supply; Made for an HP m7760n Media Center PC, because the one the shop placed in there was not original factory stuff.

It came out with two 250 GB HHDs.

I bought one brand new Seagate 500GB 5900RPM SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive.

I bought two brand new pairs of 1 GB RAM Sticks; (So this thing is maxed out now at 4 GB, with a stick in each slot.).

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One thing went wrong: When messing with the SATA data cables, one of the four got pulled clear off of the motherboard; It is in a zipper type sandwich bag.

But: Everything that needs hooked up has a SATA port; That would be the DVD R Drive, and those two HHDs.

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I actually still have the original box.

I actually still have the original papers; (I will most likely edit those before handing them out.).

It has VISTA HOME PREMIUM; And a Microsoft Key sticker on the side of the tower.
But those things never work. If you for some reason want your copy of Windows to be legitimized and registered; You do that over the phone while following on screen instructions from this PC.

And YES I DID TRY the Windows 10 Home upgrade; And it did not allow my Microsoft VISTA HOME PREMIUM Key. Plus I do not want to loose the HP Media Center partition.

The OS is open in my MS Account name; That will must needs be set back to factory the long way.
Or more likely I will run Derik's Boot and Nuke; And hand you over a PC with a properly wiped hard drive.

I have several of the Media Center Remote controls

and

a receiver for them.

I have two HP Media Center wireless keyboards

and

one wireless mouse

and

the receiver for those.

and I have one HP Media Center wired keyboard.

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So if you think it would be something special -

to have a totally revived and improved -

Not to mention VINTAGE! , -

HP m7760n Media Center PC, -

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IF YOU WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY WHAT I AM ASKING FOR A COLLECTORS ITEM PC.

If you would like to own the Lamborghini of personal computers.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO OWN THE MACHINE THAT WAS A PART OF TELEVISION HISTORY.

The HP Media Center PC was a part of television history.

The HP Media Center PC is the Lamborghini of personal computers.

then write to me.

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Out over on YouTube there are VIDEOS OF DARNED FOOLS WHO TOOK ALL THE THINGS THAT MAKE IT A MEDIA CENTER PC OUT; Just to make it run Windows.

They totally left out the proprietary HP software that makes these be an HP Media Center PC.

They did not install the HP proprietary partitions.

THEY RUINED IT!

Don't do that to these treasure chest PCs! Dude! Not Cool!

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