Re: Upgrading a Compaq Presario 5000c

I went out to meet a friend for brunch Sunday morning and noticed one
of the neighbors had put an old computer out to the street.. it held a
Pentium III 650 which didn't interest me, but I did salvage the RAM..2
64 chips and one 128 The Presario didn't recognize it at first, so I
put one stick in at a time and rebooted in-between addinge each memory
stick...it worked.... 2 slots with 64 and one with 128...so I'm up to
256 now, and I'm happier. :-) It's good enough for what I need it for.

Thanks,

JDK


dead_man_walking wrote:
On or about11 Jun 2006 07:56:40 -0700, "jdk" <jdkspace@xxxxxxxxx>
defied logic with:

|Hello,
|
| I have an old Compaq Presario 5000c which has a Duron 800 Mhz
|processor and
|128 MB of RAM. Is it feasible to upgrade this computer? I was thinking
|of putting a
| new economy motherboard in it,
|
|(PC Chips (M810LMR-Ver7.0) Athlon/Duron/XP Ready SiS730S Chipset
|w/Audio/Lan/Video UDMA-133 Micro 2PCI 1AGP ATX (No IO SHIELD, No
|Accesories, No Drivers) 60 Day Warranty DEMO Board 1 $15.00 $15.00)
|
|
|so I can use a spare 512 MB DDR chip because that RAM that's compatible
|to the current board is overpriced for what it is. . I have a few extra
|power supplies that I could also use. I don't care if I have to modify
|the case a little to make everything fit together.
| or throw everything into another case I have lying around..It's a
|utility computer I use to run one program that operates a milling
|machine, so it doesn't have to be extremely fast, but I'd like it to be
|a little faster, if possible. Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.

Installing a couple of 256 mb sticks of pc133 sdram will give a
significant boost to the Compaq. Note here that it is sometimes very
hard to make generic brands of RAM work in the old Compaqs.

I would stay away from the pc chips board and just have a look around
NewEgg for a combo deal.
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=446 This
will save you a lot of headaches. Down time on a milling machine can
get expensive.
--

-John

Artificial Intelligence stands no chance
against Natural Stupidity.

Lynx users are like the Amish of the Internet.

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