My dad's really not into computers, he has an old Aries Celeron 1.7ghz, 256mb PC133 ram!!! some kind of ancient S3 graphics card and a Shuttle motherboard.
He asked if i could speed it up a bit for him, so i'm having a look now.
First of all i'm gonna change the 256mb PC133 ram for 2x256mb DDR 400 chips (motherboard takes both) although i think it will only run them at DDR 266.
Had a look in bios and it seems you can't change the FSB or cpu multi to overclock it at all.
So i'm left with 2 options as far as i can see. Try and find a bios that lets me overclock or source a cheap second had P4 CPU to give it a bit more oomph.
The board takes upto a 3gig or was it 3.2.. but not presscott core. I think the max FSB is 533 also. (and it has to be changed by jumpers
)
I had a look on shuttles website at bios's but didn't want to chance downloading one incase i took the wrong one.
The motherboard is a Shuttle MV43 P/N and has the AMI bios.
I know it would be a whole lot easier to just stick in a cheap 939 asrock dual and a cheap 939 cpu for a big speed increase, but he only really uses it for doing a spot of office work on, and a general browse of the internet. Damn the 2mb broadband loads faster than IE can handle with there only being the 256mb PC133 ram in just now
So yeah, if someone could advise a bios update that would be great.
Just to note running superPi and speedfan, cpu was hitting 40C full load.
He asked if i could speed it up a bit for him, so i'm having a look now.
First of all i'm gonna change the 256mb PC133 ram for 2x256mb DDR 400 chips (motherboard takes both) although i think it will only run them at DDR 266.
Had a look in bios and it seems you can't change the FSB or cpu multi to overclock it at all.
So i'm left with 2 options as far as i can see. Try and find a bios that lets me overclock or source a cheap second had P4 CPU to give it a bit more oomph.
The board takes upto a 3gig or was it 3.2.. but not presscott core. I think the max FSB is 533 also. (and it has to be changed by jumpers

I had a look on shuttles website at bios's but didn't want to chance downloading one incase i took the wrong one.
The motherboard is a Shuttle MV43 P/N and has the AMI bios.
I know it would be a whole lot easier to just stick in a cheap 939 asrock dual and a cheap 939 cpu for a big speed increase, but he only really uses it for doing a spot of office work on, and a general browse of the internet. Damn the 2mb broadband loads faster than IE can handle with there only being the 256mb PC133 ram in just now

So yeah, if someone could advise a bios update that would be great.
Just to note running superPi and speedfan, cpu was hitting 40C full load.