On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 12:38 pm, Technoslick wrote: > Tell us more about the specs for this older box, Anne. This the perfect > place to find if anyone has had any problems with older components in > Linux. > > > T OK - this is what I have gleaned so far -
M'board - Mainboard Pentium MMX - driver disk is name PC100 CPU AMD 6x86MX 233 BIOS date 7/15/95 Current RAM is 2x16 + 2x32 Mb (96 in all) in SIMMS. Manual says Mobo 'Supports 3 banks of FP/EDO SIMM/DIMM and SDRAM DIMM expandable memory up to 384 Mb'. It also says that it can mix SIMMS and DIMMS, using SIMM banks 3-4 and the two DIMM slots (they quote equally loaded, but I don't know whether it is necessary, or whether it reflects availability of DIMMS at that time). Current video - VidelExcel S3 ---- Proposed changes - Diamond graphics card + Voodoo accelerator (I don't know whether this is the same Voodoo card that Ronald meant - it may be earlier) which appears to have chipsets labelled 3Dfx. Realtek NIC 128Mb DIMM - I presume no-one is going to recommend keeping the 64Mb SIMMS? ---- Any comments/suggestions welcomed - even if it is 'forget it' :-) Anne
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