Re: Old Dimension XPS T450 Questions

If in fact the BIOS has the 137GB HD limitation, it rules and you're stuck
with 137GB recognized. You don't necessarily need to buy the new HD - you
can use the 320GB drive (unless you'd rather install that in another
machine). I doubt that that's the case, though. Check DELL's site, and
especially check the MS Knowledge Base.

I have a DELL XPST700 running WinXP Pro and installed a 160GB 2nd HD - all
160GB were recognized. I also have DELL's Intel BIOS A11 dated 10/13/2000

I've since gone the same route as you - PowerLeap 1.4GHz Celeron, which is
recognized as such. Was it PowerLeap that claimed it to be a 1200 Pentium
processor? Try Belarc Advisor - see what it says. And right-click "My
Computer", then "System Information" - my Processor reads "GenuineIntel
Family 6 Model 11 1.4 GHz Steppin 1", and BIOS reads "PTLTD - 1 PhoenixBIOS
4.0 Release 6.0, 10/13/00" Your's should probably read identically.

Norton AV gave me no trouble at all.

It's possible your PowerLeap upgrade adapter and/or the processor is
defective. Did you get the PL-iP3/T upgrade adapter?

Maris

Pat Conover wrote:
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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