Old Dimension XPS T450 Questions
- From: "Pat Conover" <pat conover at comcast dot net>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:27:26 -0400
I have an old XPS T450 PIII with Win98Se that I used to upgrade my TiVo HD.
So...while I was playing with my old machine I thought I would upgrade the
processor with a PowerLeap 1.4GHz Celeron (not cost effective I know). But,
I had purchased it many moons ago and never got around to installing it.
I updated the BIOS to v11 the latest from Dell no problems. Put the
PowerLeap in and it detected the new processor, id as a 1200 Pentium Pro,
and proceeded to boot, but got stuck on the Norton AV boot scan. PowerLeap
said to put the old processor back in, boot to windows and remove Norton.
But apparently with all of this *work* on the machine somehow the 6GB IBM C
drive got knockered. Win98 Bootdisk reports drive C not formatted.
Anyway, the BIOS has a 137GB HD limitation. I have an OEM Win XP Home disk
available. If I do a clean install with Win XP on a new 320GB drive will
the 137GB HD limitation be overcome? Or am I stuck using one 120GB drive (A
Seagate 120GB is on sale at BB for $60) or a larger drive with several
partitions? I Googled some old threads here on this PC, but still don't
know if the BIOS or XP would control. I will test the MB primary IDE by
trying to boot to an old drive or format /s the existing one.
The current RAM is 384MB and I have enough old sticks to upgrade to 512MB or
even 768Mb the max. I was going to use this machine to store files over the
network, but don't want to "jump off the bridge" to do it!
Thanks for the help, Pat
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