My P4 Desktop
OK the system board is some Gateway motherboard. I have gone to the Gateway site and tried to detect it. Came back some weird name. No serial number was listed like it should have listed. This system is weird on the post screen it shows P4 1.2 Ghz. In windows it shows
2 P4 2.4 Ghz CPU'S.
Someone suggested before I look on the CPU itself. I still have not done that because I have not been able to find some grease to put back on the CPU. As soon as I can get some grease I will check what is on the CPU. But why would windows show different than the BIOS?
2 P4 2.4 Ghz CPU'S.
Someone suggested before I look on the CPU itself. I still have not done that because I have not been able to find some grease to put back on the CPU. As soon as I can get some grease I will check what is on the CPU. But why would windows show different than the BIOS?
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Im not sure why its saying its two 1.2GHz though... it should say its two 2.4GHz.
Yes I thought it should show two 2.4 GHZ.
Not sure why. He said I could clock it back up but he was not sure what he did to under clock it. I am running XP Professional SP3.
I have not been able to find Vista Drivers. Not sure how well Vista would run. XP seems OK so I will keep XP. I have just begun to like Vista.
You can use Everest and CPUZ to see the real clock speed that your PC is having...
That's what I think. Good luck
...as far as im aware windows just reports what the CPU reports.
I have looked in the BIOS did not see it. Maybe I will look again later.
But he said it was a program he used. I have took the jumper in maintenance mode on the motherboard and looked in the BIOS also.
My system is a little slow. I may do a Rioter soon.
could clock it back up. I told you if he underclocked it then it was for
some reason and you'd have problems with it if you raised it again.
I can't swear you would but see no other reason he would have
underclocked it except to cure a problem. Maybe it was just overheating
but I don't know.
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But as Fede said use CPUz and everest to get some more information before you change anything really.
It also shows it is a Intel motherboard. No mention of Gateway on CPU-Z. But there is a Gateway logo on the post screen. Ive seen other Gateway's that have the serial number in the BIOS but this board does not. That is strange to me.
Information Wizard (SIW) and it gives a ton of information in web
page form.
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SIW HTML Report on my tiny emachine
List of other good Tools
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The BIOS rounds it up. For those lacking basic math skills, 1196.2 rounds to 1.2.
Then it's an Intel motherboard. Gateway doesn't make their own motherboards.
Best thing is to just reset the CMOS and see if that restores it to the factory clock rate. If not, there could be jumpers to change it, but I doubt it. Most modern boards don't use jumpers for that.
Failing that, just pop out the battery, wait a minute and then pop it back in.
There is indeed a jumper to reset the CMOS. I just remembered. Also a jumper for the maintenance mode. I have reset the CMOS and pulled the battery out. It just did not do anything. Also a few months back I tried to flash the BIOS with an Intel BIOS as someone suggested. The system was really messed up then. Then I tried flashing it back with the original flash. I managed to get it back working. I will try pulling the battery again and messing with the jumper it want hurt anything trying a second time I guess.
I'll say again, I don't think you're going to gain much for the trouble.
"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the
purpose of diddling with his computer." - Dave Barry
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I figured I would not gain much. The max memory is 2 GB. I have 1 GB. I will gain more by adding memory.
I'd keep saving your pennies untill you can get a Core 2 Duo or whatever comes next.
Anyways, I used to have 512 MB of RAM in my desktop and when I upgraded to 2 GB, I didn't notice any difference at all. The only time I even use more than half of my RAM is when I'm running a VM or something.
EDIT: Oh and I wouldn't waste the money on that P4 unless it's parts you can reuse in a new build. Like, when I upgraded my RAM, I got DDR2 instead of DDR so that I could use it in a future build.
Call me an idiot if you want. But I plan on running XP for a while core 2 duo or whatever. As for Windows 98 I still miss it a lot.
As far as missing 98 goes, nope. I don't miss that shit at all. 9x can rot in hell where it belongs. I sometimes miss the simplicity of the old explorer, but that's why we have NT 4.
The only old version of Windows I do miss is 2000 and 2000 is still the only annoyance-free version of Windows in my opinion. XP and higher have various annoyances that you have to turn off. It's annoying... >_>
TYhe simplicity of the old explorer? Whats wrong with Vista+'s breadcrumbs style browsing... God Ilove that.. its one of the best thigns that happened SINCE Windows 95's updated shell.
In XP/2000 I always had the full path in the address bar, so it was never a big deal to jump to a parent directory.
Anyway, I like the Vista/7 navigation scheme a lot, I didn't got lost with it even at the first-time usage of Vista, back in 2008