Upgrade help needed for P11 Celeron 266

[Dave Johns]

Hello,

This is my first post. I came here looking for help with upgrading to a faster processor so my son can run a couple of games and so I can install a cd burner for him. As much as I know right now, I have a P11 slot 1 celeron 266 and the cd burner requires at least 400. I bought a really neat looking flight simulator a while back and it also needed a faster processor.

I use a laptop for my business but this machine is used for word processing, a little web surfing, and as I said, we would like to add cd burner.

Any suggestions. I know the older CPU's are no longer being produced, but there must be lots of stuff available still. I have been able to read a little about the compatability of the motherboard and bios, but don't know the manufacturer of the board. I looked in the system info area and think I have a BX chipset.

My previous experience in working inside the box is installing a cd rom on a older machine and adding memory to this one. I'd like to think I could pull this off without causing the smoke detector to start blaring.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.


dave

[Fruss Tray Ted]

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The specs on the pc needed are:
Brand ie. Gateway etc,
Model number
amount and type of RAM
power supply size (wattage)
motherboard model (look on the board itself)
Whatever else it has for peripherals

Then we can look up what modifications can/cannot be done to it. :)

[Budfred]

You can download this freeware program to analyze and give you data on your system that you can then post here to get more help:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Budfred

[Dave Johns]

Thanks to Fruss and Budfred I now am able to better identify my computer.

The following is what Belarc Advisor say about this box. Does this help?

dave


Operating System System Model
Windows 98 (build 4.10.1998) Kling's Computers Inc. KCi 98
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
266 megahertz Intel Pentium II
32 kilobyte primary memory cache Board: i440BX-W977TF
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 4.51 PG 05/26/98
Drives Memory Modules
4.30 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
3.08 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SONY CD-ROM CDU701
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic IDE hard disk drive (4.30 GB) -- drive 0 192 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot '0' has 128 MB
Slot '1' has 64 MB
Slot '2' is Empty
Slot '3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 4.30 GB 3.08 GB free

Logins Network Drives
No details available

Installed Microsoft Hotfixes Printers
W98.TELNET (Windows 98 TELNET Update)
Y2K.W98.2 (Windows 98 Year 2000 Update 2)
Win98.SE
UPD249973 (details...) Reinstall!
Win98.SP1
UPD168115 (details...)
UPD238453 (details...)
Win98
UPD245729 (details...)
UPD256015 (details...)
UPD259728 (details...)
UPD273991 (details...)
UPD314147 (details...)


Driver on COM3:
HP DeskJet 340 on LPT1:
HP DeskJet 710C Series on LPT1:
PaperPort on LPT1:
Visioneer PaperPort Color on LPT1:

Controllers Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) Trident Imàge 975 Linear Accelerated for AGP (v6.20.6139) [Display adapter]
Plug and Play Monitor
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected)
Wave Device for Voice Modem
YAMAHA OPL3-SAx WDM Driver
Communications Other Devices
Cirrus 56K bps Modem Internal (CL-MD5650) Modem
Hayes Accura 56K PC Card [Modem]
AOL Adapter

[Steve]

Dave Johns,

I think you have a Chaintech motherboard. You can contact Kling's Computer Inc. HERE (http://www.klings.com/) .

They can tell you just how fast a CPU the board will take. They may even be able to sell you one.

Or...When you find out how high you can go, (I'm figuring 450mhz) you can check out THIS (http://www.compgeeks.com/products.asp?cat=CPU) site and buy a processor. I have used this company several times and have always been happy.

Hope this helps...:)

[Dave Johns]

Thanks Steve,

It turns out, after lots of searching, that I have a Rise board. It is an R657. I have been able to find out that it will support either 66 or 100 bus, but don't know which PII or PIII cpu's it will support or what jumper or bios changes I need to make.

Any ideas. I'm getting closer and appreciate all the help.

dave

[Steve]

Closer is good...:)

HERE (http://www.rise.com.tw/jumpup/r657.pdf) is the manual for the motherboard.

Looks like you can go all the way up to a 500mhz Pll chip. You can also increase the ram to 768megs. A very nice upgrade indeed. 512megs of ram would probably be more than enough.

Add a larger hard drive and a cd-burner?....;)