On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:05:29AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
> > Hardware:
> > - Motherboard. Carbon-16 didn't work, so it must be old.
> > - 133 MHz Pentium (probably MMX)
>
> Probably not. I believe 166 MHz was the slowest Pentium-MMX chip.
I realise now that I mislead you (I really should have had the box next
to me when I wrote the mail).
It's an old Dell Dimension XPS M166s (I assume that the 166 refers to
CPU clock frequency, so I was wrong about the 133Mhz).
And the case as a couple of pesky stickers: "Intel Inside - Pentium MMX
processor" (not II or III or IV), as well as the mandatory "Designed
for <GuessWhat> 95".
The most serious problem with the box seems to be:
- The plastic bit of the power button has broken off. For now I have to
press it with a screwdriver (!). I guess if it locks up, I'll have to
get a locksmith!
- The BIOS battery has given up the ghost. At every reboot the settings
get reset. Along with date and time :-( A replacement was easily
obtainable from B&Q (yep: they sell 3V lithium batteries!)
> > - 64 Mb memory - no free memory slots :-(
>
> Those old (FX chipset?) motherboards only have a cacheable area of 64MB,
> so using more than 64MB can actually reduce performance, though I think
> this effect would be less significant on Linux.
Don't know which chipset is in it, but I'll take your word for it. Not
too much of an issue since I cannot put more memory in anyway. I'll just
have to be careful in the choice of applications.
--
Karl E. Jørgensen
karl@jorgensen.com
www.karl.jorgensen.com
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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