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| Thread ID: 49002 | 2004-09-07 09:50:00 | Old PCs | Brianxxx (6131) | Press F1 |
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| 270174 | 2004-09-07 09:50:00 | Does anybody know were I can get some information on the jumper settings for various motherboards, compatibility of different types of ram eg. simm/EDO with sd and CPUs (socket 7) plus anything that might be helpful when playing around with old PCs trying to get the best out of these 'Old Busses.' | Brianxxx (6131) | ||
| 270175 | 2004-09-07 09:55:00 | drb1 (4492) | |||
| 270176 | 2004-09-07 10:08:00 | google 2 u 2 | Brianxxx (6131) | ||
| 270177 | 2004-09-07 10:10:00 | Hi Brianxxx , would a program that tells you more about your system help , such as Belarc www.belarc.com or Everest home www.lavalys.com ..be of any use in starting your quest ? :) |
KatiMike (242) | ||
| 270178 | 2004-09-07 10:12:00 | Seriously, just entering the motherboard make and model into Google will lead you to the information, either from a review or from the makers site (or both). There is no better place to get the info. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 270179 | 2004-09-07 10:22:00 | > Seriously, just entering the motherboard make and > model into Google will lead you to the information, > either from a review or from the makers site (or > both). > > There is no better place to get the info. You give Google the make as well, you make life easy for him, give him board #, bridge #, chip# on ram, he find. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 270180 | 2004-09-07 10:22:00 | > Does anybody know were I can get some information on > the jumper settings for various motherboards, > compatibility of different types of ram eg. simm/EDO > with sd and CPUs (socket 7) plus anything that might > be helpful when playing around with old PCs trying to > get the best out of these 'Old Busses.' Yes you can get motherboard manuals, jumper settings for hard drives etc from the Internet. You say "various Motherboards" here. Use a search engine and type in the Motherboard make and model. If you have the right make and model then this should tell you what RAM it takes like edo, sdram, ddr etc. Unfortunately there are "Brand name" PCs about that only accept certain RAM etc. In my humble opinion there is nothing wrong with a Dell, IBM, Acer, HP etc type computer. So long as you decide as the buyer and go buy one and you know it works for you then why not? However I have to say that these computers may give you a difficulty when trying to upgrade. You may also have problems with operating systems and drivers. One thing that I did was to upgrade my O/S from Win98SE to WinXP Pro. I am certainly not unhappy I did this but had to get rid of my Mustek scanner as they did not supply a driver for WinXP. For a while I dual booted then bought a different scanner. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 270181 | 2004-09-07 10:41:00 | In the absence of specifics following are some websites that might help : useful site for resetting the BIOS here (www.elfqrin.com), site for different types of RAM here (www.computermemoryupgrade.net), another useful RAM site here (www.buymemory.com), if the PC's are using old versions of Windows then you can access MS downloads for them from here (www.microsoft.com). this (users.erols.com) site on cpu's may or may not help but if you are working with P2 processors then this (support.intel.com) will help. Regarding drivers for older PC's and OS - they can be found eventually with a little help from Google. BTW, welcome to Press F1! |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 270182 | 2004-09-08 09:09:00 | Thanks I will give it a go. You see I have this old ASUS MB. it is a P55TVP4 and I have been told that they were quite popular bock in the 90s because you were able to upgrade them and upgrade them and upgrade them. To top it off AMD. brought out this K6 CPU that is reputed to be the fastes socket 7 ever made. Well being a novis I thought that I should ask the experts. Thankyou for your help. Brian |
Brianxxx (6131) | ||
| 270183 | 2004-09-08 09:11:00 | Thanks I will give it a go. Brian. |
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