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can I Upgrade?
Name: penlost Date: May 6, 2002 at 08:37:35 Pacific
Comment:
I have an old p1 system and would like to know if it is possible to upgrade it, even if it is to a p2 or p3?. Also, can i add a scanner or will it be to much for the system?. it has 64mb ram and only 1.5gb hardrive.
Name: Sterling_Aug Date: May 6, 2002 at 09:01:26 Pacific
Reply:
I would look into an AMD K6-3 500 MHz processor upgrade for your Pentium 1 system.
You could also replace the motherboard/processor/RAM for more money and get more speed.
You can add a scanner now, but the scan spped will be very slow compared to a new high speed system.
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Response Number 2
Name: Badboy Date: May 6, 2002 at 10:12:08 Pacific
Reply:
What MOBO do you have?
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Response Number 3
Name: penlost Date: May 6, 2002 at 14:38:20 Pacific
Reply:
sorry, I am not yet fully computer literate!. Do you mean motherboard?. If so, I don't have a clue what it is. Is there any way I can find out without routing around inside my computer?.
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Response Number 4
Name: Badboy Date: May 6, 2002 at 17:48:22 Pacific
Reply:
Sometimes Belarc Advisor will tell you what your MOtherBOard is.
You can download it for free.
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Response Number 5
Name: penlost Date: May 7, 2002 at 03:20:40 Pacific
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I have run Belaric advisor and it shows the main circuit board to be bios award software 4.50pg 01/26/96. does this help?.
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Response Number 6
Name: Badboy Date: May 7, 2002 at 03:34:56 Pacific
Reply:
This URL might help:
http://www.wimsbios.com/
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Response Number 7
Name: penlost Date: May 7, 2002 at 04:10:54 Pacific
Reply:
thanks for your help - it is listed on the website as microstar ms5117. does this help?
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Response Number 8
Name: Badboy Date: May 7, 2002 at 19:17:45 Pacific
It does not have USB which means you might need a SCSI scanner and a SCSI card or a USB card and WIN98 or higher for your OS. Allegedly, WIN95B supports USB but I’ve only seen that work once on my kids’ old Dell, which coincidently was a P1 200MHz with 64MB RAM. We ran USB scanner off that but it ran SLOW.
I think this computer has a very short upgrade path and I think you’d be better off buying a new computer than trying to upgrade this one.
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Response Number 9
Name: penlost Date: May 8, 2002 at 11:05:39 Pacific
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Award BIOS flash
