P5-75 upgrade but not mboard

The only real thing you can do about the processor is see if you can get an old Evergreen kit. With the regulator plate and internally set multiplier you'll have an AMD K6-2 I think and I believe in that board it will run at

350Mhz. If you can get the clock speed up it will go 400 or maybe even 450M hz. It will require a BIOS upgrade to use that chip, those were supplied by Evergreen on a CDROM and you had to make a floppy. That board might boot f rom a CD, but I'd bet it won't flah the BIOS from one.

The other thing would be to see how much RAM it'll take.

One of the best things to do to keep that thing running instead of crawling is to use old software on it. Win 98 would be good, but that was actually built for 95. Maybe even 3.11.

You should determine the make and model of the board and get the specs. The y might be online somewhere. You can find out how much RAM it'll take, it p robably maxes out at 64MB but Win 95 or 98 should run OK in that.

I don't know what to tell you about a web browser for it. One nice thing is that it is probably too old to catch a modern virus. I remember one tried to hit me but couldn't because my Java was not up to date. MWAHAHAHA.

You might want to try out Opera if you intend to take that thing online. Fo rget IE, you probably can't run higher than 5 on that so forget it. Maybe y ou can get an old enough version of Firefox, maybe. I can't help you config ure a router or switch in those old OSes so you'll have to find an old guru for that.

Good luck with that old boat anchor. Sometimes I like to screw with junk ju st BECAUSE, or because everyone says I am wasting my time.

Now if you find something worse, like a 486SX, I got a game that'll not run on anything newer. I got some old ass programs laying around. I simply hav e no reason to get rid of them.

Question : Did it EVER see that larger HD ? If it is big you might need a BIOS update or an overlay to use it.

There is a market for these computers. Old radios, like the kind used in taxi cabs, ambulances, fire trucks, etc need to be programmed using DOS and an old slow computer. They are very much still in use by amatuer radio operators (hams), and someone may very much want your old computer.

The radios I program work very nicely with Pentium 200 laptops, but there are others that won't. They would work with a Pentium 75.

As for running the 486 games, you could try using throttle:

There is also another program called MOSLOW that may work.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

Yes I used the larger HD from 1999-2009 and maybe later. After the CMOS battery went, the disk was no longer available. I found out because W98 is on the big drive. Actually it is partitioned into 650MB segments. It dual boots (win3.11WG came with the machine) and I use it mostly for DOS.

Back in 2009 I deleted a lot of stuff after I moved it to the newer XP machine. THe scanner light on the 1995 HPOJLX died and I have a new HPOJ to install when the ink runs out. Part of me says to dump the P5 with the OJLX.

I would only install PCI stuff, not play with as massive a project as a motherboard.

Much obliged

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*+-There is a market for these computers. Old radios, like the kind used *+-in taxi cabs, ambulances, fire trucks, etc need to be programmed using *+-DOS and an old slow computer. They are very much still in use by amatuer *+-radio operators (hams), and someone may very much want your old computer.

Maybe I should sell them my 1980 hp2621a terminal (built in Puerto RIco) hooked up to 1985 Ampro 2210 (80186 - MSDOS Generic, no bit map - assembled in Mountain View from Signapore board). I ripped the printer ribbon cable by accident and only recently found my notes on how I built it. I hardly use it. The glasson the HP is peeling and looks like mildew. The battery that allowed the HP to remember settings is no longer available. THe HP worked with a pintout of five, like they taught me in EE class, unlike the newer Asian stuff.

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I just added a USB card and replaced the battery. Initially it refused to work, but I had to reprogram the CMOS settings. Once I did that, it the slave drive came online. (the CMOS had lost the slave drive settings when the battery went)

17yrs for a battery is not bad

- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist

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