greetings to all here

The Ghost Wrote:
i ran across this site yesterday and did not have time to join or browse
much .
this seems to be the right place for my questions .

we have 3 pc's in our home . my wife's is a hp pavilion xl761 , mine an
ibm pc 300pl and the latest one (free !) is a presario 9232 . the 9232
is for my oldest daughter , 11 , to learn basic skills on .

i know it has the mighty Pentium1 and a whopping 1.2 hard drive and 16
megs total in memory (4x4) and windows 98 with office 2000 ; i am at a
loss to find much more info about this machine . for 1996 it was set up
well but i need input on what i can upgrade or if this is a waste of
money . i feel that i can do the basics ; i upgraded the hard drives on
both of the other pc's , added memory and even upgraded to a cd burner
on the ibm so i am not afraid to take things apart . but i need
guidance on the 9232 .

i have the maxtor 40 gig hard drive from the hp i can install and have
found memory fairly cheap , but can i move up in cpu size or am i stuck
at P1 ? i am not afraid to change main board if it is not too costly ;
since this is a freebie i can spend a little bit .

i know sometimes it is easier to buy new , but i am trying to teach my
children the basics as i learn too .

any input would be greatly welcomed .
thank you all

the serial numer is 6613HVB5P224
sorry i missed that from first post


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The Ghost

I really would not recommend spending much money on it. You could install up
to a 200 MHz non-MMX Pentium processor, but there is an 8 GB hard drive size
limit in BIOS and no BIOS update will fix that. You could upgrade to a max
1362MB of RAM. It came with 8MB soldered on the systemboard. There are 4
SIMM slots that take up to a 32MB, 72-pin, 70ns fast page mode SIMM. These
must be added in like pairs. You might check here for the procesor and RAM:

http://www.isellsurplus.conm

They havePentium 166s for $4.49, 16MB SIMMs (largest they have now) for $3
each and 3.2GB hard drives for$13.99

There is a sticker inside the right side case panel showing what jumpers
need to be reset for the processors and where the jumpers are.

HH

"The Ghost" wrote in message
...

The Ghost Wrote:
i ran across this site yesterday and did not have time to join or browse
much .
this seems to be the right place for my questions .

we have 3 pc's in our home . my wife's is a hp pavilion xl761 , mine an
ibm pc 300pl and the latest one (free !) is a presario 9232 . the 9232
is for my oldest daughter , 11 , to learn basic skills on .

i know it has the mighty Pentium1 and a whopping 1.2 hard drive and 16
megs total in memory (4x4) and windows 98 with office 2000 ; i am at a
loss to find much more info about this machine . for 1996 it was set up
well but i need input on what i can upgrade or if this is a waste of
money . i feel that i can do the basics ; i upgraded the hard drives on
both of the other pc's , added memory and even upgraded to a cd burner
on the ibm so i am not afraid to take things apart . but i need
guidance on the 9232 .

i have the maxtor 40 gig hard drive from the hp i can install and have
found memory fairly cheap , but can i move up in cpu size or am i stuck
at P1 ? i am not afraid to change main board if it is not too costly ;
since this is a freebie i can spend a little bit .

i know sometimes it is easier to buy new , but i am trying to teach my
children the basics as i learn too .

any input would be greatly welcomed .
thank you all

the serial numer is 6613HVB5P224
sorry i missed that from first post


--
The Ghost

I can certainly improve on the pricing of isellsurplus with the parts I have
available here... Ben

Ben Myers
Spirit of Performance, Inc.
73 Westcott Road
Harvard, MA 01451
tel: 978-456-3889
fax: 810-963-0412
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:44:38 -0500, "HH" wrote:

I really would not recommend spending much money on it. You could install up
to a 200 MHz non-MMX Pentium processor, but there is an 8 GB hard drive size
limit in BIOS and no BIOS update will fix that. You could upgrade to a max
1362MB of RAM. It came with 8MB soldered on the systemboard. There are 4
SIMM slots that take up to a 32MB, 72-pin, 70ns fast page mode SIMM. These
must be added in like pairs. You might check here for the procesor and RAM:

http://www.isellsurplus.conm

They havePentium 166s for $4.49, 16MB SIMMs (largest they have now) for $3
each and 3.2GB hard drives for$13.99

There is a sticker inside the right side case panel showing what jumpers
need to be reset for the processors and where the jumpers are.

HH

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.. .

The Ghost Wrote:
i ran across this site yesterday and did not have time to join or browse
much .
this seems to be the right place for my questions .

we have 3 pc's in our home . my wife's is a hp pavilion xl761 , mine an
ibm pc 300pl and the latest one (free !) is a presario 9232 . the 9232
is for my oldest daughter , 11 , to learn basic skills on .

i know it has the mighty Pentium1 and a whopping 1.2 hard drive and 16
megs total in memory (4x4) and windows 98 with office 2000 ; i am at a
loss to find much more info about this machine . for 1996 it was set up
well but i need input on what i can upgrade or if this is a waste of
money . i feel that i can do the basics ; i upgraded the hard drives on
both of the other pc's , added memory and even upgraded to a cd burner
on the ibm so i am not afraid to take things apart . but i need
guidance on the 9232 .

i have the maxtor 40 gig hard drive from the hp i can install and have
found memory fairly cheap , but can i move up in cpu size or am i stuck
at P1 ? i am not afraid to change main board if it is not too costly ;
since this is a freebie i can spend a little bit .

i know sometimes it is easier to buy new , but i am trying to teach my
children the basics as i learn too .

any input would be greatly welcomed .
thank you all

the serial numer is 6613HVB5P224
sorry i missed that from first post


--
The Ghost