Upgrading an ancient PC?

[Markeh]

I shall boot up in the morning and snap a picture of the first boot screen with my camera, then upload it here.

There's something about CPU to AGP2.0/3.0 Controller in the Device manager (see my last post), so I think it might.

[AgnesIO]

I'll post tomorrow is a few ideas mate!

[N!ck]

Mentor, that is DDR2 RAM, he (probably) needs SDRAM.

If you have an x2 AGP port you need an x2 card. If you have an x4 port either an x4 or x8 card will work, but an x2 card will not.

[Markeh]

I'll post tomorrow is a few ideas mate!

To be fair, I'd post tonight but I've gotta wait till my camera's charged. Sorry

[Markeh]

Sorry to DP, but I've got the photo. Unfortunately. my camera isn't uploading it to the PC, so I will write down what it says.

Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally
Copyright (C) 1984-2003, Phoenix Technologies

W7061VMS V1.2 072804 15:18:19

Detecting IDE Drives... (it does eventually come up with the 2 CD drives, but I couldnt catch that on camera)

And then at the bottom...

Press DEL to enter SETUP

07/28/2004-KM400-8235-6A6LYM4BC-00 (when the IDE drives load, this changed to AMD Sempron 2400+, I think)

Hope that helps.

[AgnesIO]

To be fair, I'd post tonight but I've gotta wait till my camera's charged. Sorry

What?

I was saying I will contribute to the thread with how to make it faster?

[Markeh]

LOL. sorry Dom, didnt realise lol.

[Jordy]

Sorry to DP, but I've got the photo. Unfortunately. my camera isn't uploading it to the PC, so I will write down what it says.

And then at the bottom...

Hope that helps.

After googling "W7061VMS" it seems pretty conclusive you have a MSI KM4AM-V.

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=pr...o=&prod_no=594

The good news is it supports AGP x8 and up to 2GB RAM

[Markeh]

Thats brilliant, thanks. So, I'm gonna get a 7600 GS, and pick up 2Gb of RAM. Would a DVD rewriter be a worthwhile investment? Are there some internal ones available in beige to match?

+REPs to all that have helped.

[Jordy]

Thats brilliant, thanks. So, I'm gonna get a 7600 GS, and pick up 2Gb of RAM. Would a DVD rewriter be a worthwhile investment? Are there some internal ones available in beige to match?

+REPs to all that have helped.

Sounds good yeah, you can get internal beige DVD-RW rather easily, you can go for IDE or SATA it doesn't really matter, IDE has big fat cables and SATA is slightly faster and more expensive but either way it doesn't really matter.

As for it being a worthwhile investment that depends how likely you are to burn CDs/DVDs.

For RAM these look a pretty good deals: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/92006
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Pr...0-memory-CAS-3