I'm OCing me ole' pentium 75, first it needs to run win xp which needs 128mb ram and this has only got 32mb and the 850mb hdd.... well its just not big enough for windows xp. and overclocking in the bios isnt an option, i tryed it when i was testing it out on DOS (lol) and says Processor Speed: 75MHz and FSB: 50MHz, and i cant chnage them, so ill try using clockgen or something. Any ideas on pin modding?
ohh btw here are the full specs
Socket 5 Pentium 75MHz, 50MHz FSB
2x 16mb EDO ram
Seagate 850mb
And sure enough its an ole' Intel Mobo
first: DONT RUN WINXP on that, it's evil, it would take a century just to boot
second; you can oc it without any pinmod, check your mobo for some jumpers that set the fsb, the multiplier and the voltage, near them a little box should be with all the combinations and their effects, I think the jumpers vary from board to board, but in many I found them in JP 8 -10.
You just set the jumpers as desired and try it
Know that because my old rig was a socket 7 Pentium IMMX, 4*16EDO one, and where I worked last december had a whole cementery of old machines (the newest of them, a couple of pIII, the rest were either socket 7 or sockt 5)
first: DONT RUN WINXP on that, it's evil, it would take a century just to boot
second; you can oc it without any pinmod, check your mobo for some jumpers that set the fsb, the multiplier and the voltage, near them a little box should be with all the combinations and their effects, I think the jumpers vary from board to board, but in many I found them in JP 8 -10.
You just set the jumpers as desired and try it
Know that because my old rig was a socket 7 Pentium IMMX, 4*16EDO one, and where I worked last december had a whole cementery of old machines (the newest of them, a couple of pIII, the rest were either socket 7 or sockt 5)
i was going to run ubuntu, but as that needs 128mb ram... im stuck. and where are the jumpers, im not very smart with overclocking, i know what jumpers are but umm yea HELP!
now, sreiously, that's your job, you have to look all over your motherboard to find those jumpers, remember that a little table with jumper position and values is right next to them, so you might want to look for that first.
bout the OS, too bad that ubuntu won't make it, does your mobo support SDRAM modules? some of those old mobos had bot SIMM and SDRAM slots, if it has them, chek out if you can install 2x64 modules
now, sreiously, that's your job, you have to look all over your motherboard to find those jumpers, remember that a little table with jumper position and values is right next to them, so you might want to look for that first.
bout the OS, too bad that ubuntu won't make it, does your mobo support SDRAM modules? some of those old mobos had bot SIMM and SDRAM slots, if it has them, chek out if you can install 2x64 modules
nope only got EDO, windows 95 only needs 8MB ram, and 98 needs 16mb (24mb reccomended) and ive got the disk for it so ill do that tonight. got the ole' bomb on ma knee and does this sound like it ? J1H1 it has 26 pins.
now, sreiously, that's your job, you have to look all over your motherboard to find those jumpers, remember that a little table with jumper position and values is right next to them, so you might want to look for that first.
bout the OS, too bad that ubuntu won't make it, does your mobo support SDRAM modules? some of those old mobos had bot SIMM and SDRAM slots, if it has them, chek out if you can install 2x64 modules
nope only got EDO, windows 95 only needs 8MB ram, and 98 needs 16mb (24mb reccomended) and ive got the disk for it so ill do that tonight. got the ole' bomb on ma knee and does this sound like it ? J1H1 it has 26 pins.
32MB is not very much... you might have to use windoze 3.1 or an ancient version of Linux or a new version that can run with only 32MB.
I have been able to run Knoppix 4.0.2 and FC4 both with a 2.6 kernel on a 300MHz Geode but I have 256MB RAM.
IIRC you need at least 96MB of RAM to run X on Knoppix.
now, sreiously, that's your job, you have to look all over your motherboard to find those jumpers, remember that a little table with jumper position and values is right next to them, so you might want to look for that first.
bout the OS, too bad that ubuntu won't make it, does your mobo support SDRAM modules? some of those old mobos had bot SIMM and SDRAM slots, if it has them, chek out if you can install 2x64 modules
nope only got EDO, windows 95 only needs 8MB ram, and 98 needs 16mb (24mb reccomended) and ive got the disk for it so ill do that tonight. got the ole' bomb on ma knee and does this sound like it ? J1H1 it has 26 pins.
Windows 98 runs best with 128-256MB of RAM. I have a friend who ran 98 with 512MB, and he says it frequently crashed and gave him error messages. That computer would probably be best with 95. Or you could take it out back and smash it.
Not really. i remember my third computer. Here re the (then) blazing specs:
Some Compaq computer:
Cyrix 233 MHz
16MB RAM
4MB some graphics card
USB ports (those were probably the first days of USB)
(I think) 800MB HDD
etc.
This thing actually ran Windows 98 manageably. It ran like a beast when I upped the RAM to 256MB. It even ran Office XP without any hassles!
My dad got me my fourth computer when I realized that Lego Island 2 wouldn't run on it (Hey, I was in 5th grade at the time. What, did you expect me to play Doom?)
Quick sugestion Run Linux OR Windows 95 and thats about all you can run XP will not run on that machine (233Mhz minimum requirement and all that) Depending on what your doing with it honestly I would pick a nice light Linux Distro if all you want to do is surf the web and email
Not really. i remember my third computer. Here re the (then) blazing specs:
Some Compaq computer:
Cyrix 233 MHz
16MB RAM
4MB some graphics card
USB ports (those were probably the first days of USB)
(I think) 800MB HDD
etc.
This thing actually ran Windows 98 manageably. It ran like a beast when I upped the RAM to 256MB. It even ran Office XP without any hassles!
My dad got me my fourth computer when I realized that Lego Island 2 wouldn't run on it (Hey, I was in 5th grade at the time. What, did you expect me to play Doom?)
When I was in fifth grade (2002-2003), I had a Dell Dimension 4400 running XP home with a 1.6GHz P4 Williamette, 256MB DDR266, and a 40GB HDD. And a GF2 TI4200, I beleive. Once I got what I have now, it became the family computer, and with another 512MB RAM and a WD 80GB IDE hard drive, it flies. Maybe not flies, but it works well enough for Firefox, MS Word, and NFS6.
Quick sugestion Run Linux OR Windows 95 and thats about all you can run XP will not run on that machine (233Mhz minimum requirement and all that) Depending on what your doing with it honestly I would pick a nice light Linux Distro if all you want to do is surf the web and email
:-D
Damn Small Linux is probably one of the few distros that will probably run reasonably well on it.
I havent overclocked it yet! im going to put win 98 on it tonight (its 5pm here in NZ) and ill do some overclocking on friday ( got godamm school until thursday (holidays begins YEY).
btw do you think ill need the old heatsink to use on the northbridge? tom used a compressor on the northbridge when he did his 5ghz overclock.
i had mine at the time at 100mhz, they should do 110mhz and not much further but whatever speed it runs at its still usin a 5th gen fsb so even at say 1ghz (imposible by far but for example sake) it would still run like crap.
Cooling a mere few watts of heat? anything with a fan will do for cpu, and chipset for P1's dont need heatsinks unless its SiS.
Not really. i remember my third computer. Here re the (then) blazing specs:
Some Compaq computer:
Cyrix 233 MHz
16MB RAM
4MB some graphics card
USB ports (those were probably the first days of USB)
(I think) 800MB HDD
etc.
Those were the times...when I got mine it had a Quantum Bigfoot HDD 4Gb, all my friends were: NO WAY!!!! 4Gb????? you won't EVER need another HDD........one year later, all of them had 10Gb at least....
I crawled with my pc for 8 years, the biggest upgrade I got: 2*16EDO sticks, 30Gb 7200rpm WD and a Geforce 2 mx400 64Mb PCI (after 5 and a half years) the last 2 and a half years wre with the "updates"
