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Hey guys,
I have an IBM Aptiva-2137/E24 with the above mentioned processor. I was wondering up to what speed I may upgrade the processor to? Also, If I could buy a Pentium processor instead of the AMD. Excuse my ignorance on this matter, I'm a newbie at this and thanks in advance.
Daniel
There are a few things you can do to see if your motherboard can take a faster CPU. First you have a socket 7 motherboard, that means that the best Pentium you can install is a 233. I am not formilor with your computer; most computers post their bios I.D. numbers at start up. It's a very long set of numbers and letters. Write the number down and look up your board on Windrivers. Some motherboards have the jumper information printed right on the motherboard.
Oxymoron of the day:
"Upgradable Aptiva"
Bad.Iron is right that you can probably only upgrade to a 233. And, being an IBM, you may not be able to upgrade at all. And besides, a 200 to 233MHz upgrade would not be worth the trouble.
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I forgot to list the reason why I wanted to "upgrade" or change processors. I was running Win98 a while back and my system started to freeze up every 8-10 minutes for about a 6-7 second duration. My explorer was crashing also. So, I decided to format my hard drive and instead install Windows 2000. My system NEVER froze up once while using this O/S. However, I wanted to use my 3-D cards that somebody hooked me up with and since Win2K is not meant for gaming, I decided to go the safe route and install Win95 C. When I did the clean install, the O/S was running perfectly fine, when I started to install programs, the freezing up symptoms were starting to occur again. Just to let you know, I didn't install that many programs...only the essentials. What can be causing this? The processor itself? Is the fan too old? What should I do???
Daniel
P.S. If you know of any good internet sites where they sell processors, let me know.
P.P.S Sorry for the long-winded message.
sounds like you could have either a bad ram (take it and get it tested at a local tech shop) your processor (borrow a different one) or mobo (unlikly but possible)