Ram In An Old Computer

davegi · 04-14-2005, 03:23 PM

My buddy has a terrible comouter: 200mhz, 32mb EDO RAM (Terrible pc, dont mention buy a new one)

qustion1: HE HAS A HEWLETT PACKARD VL 5/200 SERIES 5 MOTHERBOARD
NE 1 KNOW HOW FAST OF A (CPU) CHIP I COULD PUT IN THIS MOTHERBOARD??ITS 200MHZ NOW AND IT'S A PENTIUM

QUESTION2- U GUYS KNOW THE MAX EDO MEMORY IT COULD TAKE, ITS ON 32MB NOW.. I KNOW THIS COMP IS GARBAGE, ANYHELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

**koala** · 04-15-2005, 01:06 PM

That's an old motherboard!! The BIOS only allows hard drives up to 8.4Gb. I think the max CPU is 200 MMX, and max RAM 64Mb.
Good luck finding parts for it.

04-14-2005, 03:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
davegi Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 20 OS: windows 98 se	Ram In An Old Computer My buddy has a terrible comouter: 200mhz, 32mb EDO RAM (Terrible pc, dont mention buy a new one) qustion1: HE HAS A HEWLETT PACKARD VL 5/200 SERIES 5 MOTHERBOARD NE 1 KNOW HOW FAST OF A (CPU) CHIP I COULD PUT IN THIS MOTHERBOARD??ITS 200MHZ NOW AND IT'S A PENTIUM QUESTION2- U GUYS KNOW THE MAX EDO MEMORY IT COULD TAKE, ITS ON 32MB NOW.. I KNOW THIS COMP IS GARBAGE, ANYHELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

04-15-2005, 01:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 12,420 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	That's an old motherboard!! The BIOS only allows hard drives up to 8.4Gb. I think the max CPU is 200 MMX, and max RAM 64Mb. Good luck finding parts for it.