Building another system. Need help DESPERATELY!!!

[Jorden]

Actually, isn't that CPU an AMD "586"... their answer to the original Pentium for 486 users? I don't think that the 486 made it up to 133 (but I could be wrong)

No you're not wrong there, Holly. The last 486'ish was the Pentium Overdrive (As I said up there somewhere ), which ran at 83 and I think 100MHz. Cyrix, AMD and another brand (forgot which, is not longer in existance, but hey! which one sticking to Socket 7 is?? ) ran some CPU's higher than that, 120MHz, 133, 150 and 166(+).

The clue comes from the socket 3... The max CPU that you could stick in a socket 3 is a DX 33MHz, 486. A 486 DX-2 66MHz, a 586 from AMD or a 686 from Cyrix would need a socket 5 or socket 7 !! (Maybe Dimitri made a typo? )

At least, that's with the Tulips at school. You might doubt me on this one, but I cleaned about 20 PC's with these sockets 3, and brought them all back to life. All 486-33 SX and DX.

All things considered, it's hardly worth it to put that together, because you most likely don't have the horsepower to run much more than DOS and Win 3.1...

Hmmm, not that it runs highly, but if Dimitri can assess the amount of RAM, with 8 to 16Mb RAM you can run Windows 95 OSR/2.1 (with USB supplement) on such a machine. Even network with it, through coax (don't use UTP!!). With 28 to 32Mb it's really fast.

So Dimitri, if you think you can let go of those blondes with voluminous boobs, tight asses and blue eyes, tanning on the beach, then this could be a nice thing to do

If not, no hard feelings... (excuse the pun).

Jord.

[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 04 April 2000).]

[RAB]

Dimitri,
If you are determined to get somewhere with this project, you can start by identifying the mobo. Go to http://www.sysopt.com/bios.html and go to either the Award or AMI page if you are lucky enough to to have one of these bioses. If not, the page has a lot of useful links to other sources for bios information. Once you have the board idnetified, you might be able to make some progress and maybe even get an owners manual online.
RAB

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

here is a very simple solution to your problem: