Re: Old Dimension XPS T450 Questions

Tom that's what has me confused too. I thought XP SP2 would support it
regardless of the BIOS, but have not found a definitive answer on that.

According to Dell it has an Intel 440BX AGP Chipset. The current updated
BIOS is A11 dated 10/31/2000 and the A10 BIOS is the only one to mention HD
capacities: The A10 BIOS was created from A09 with the following changes: 1.
Correctly display the drive capacity for hard drives that are greater than
64 GB.

Maris the BIOS reported the PowerLeap 1.4Ghz as a Pentium Pro 1200
processor, never reached Windows. I did get the PL-iP3/T upgrade with the
adapter. Seemed to work fine till Norton AV tried to do a boot scan.
PowerLeap says some software is some how tied or looks for the processor
information and fails when it sees the upgrade. Who knows? I may as well
try the large drive and XP and see how it goes. I have another TiVo that
could also use a large HD if all else fails.

Your XPST700 running WinXP Pro seems to give me some hope. How's your
machine run with XP Pro? How much RAM?
Thank you both for the help, Pat

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not sure that's true. I thought XP SP2 broke the limit regardless of
the machine.

"Maris V. Lidaka Sr." <nemlidaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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