Playing with Pentiums
It's been a while, but I haven't forgotten I have a blog! My last post was about a £20 PC I picked up from Facebook Marketplace and this post is a little more about it and what I've been up to with it. I found a BIOS update that allows the motherboard to support up to a 450MHz Pentium II. I have a spare Pentium II 400, so I downloaded the BIOS and flashed it - something I HATE doing. Happily it worked and I didn't brick the motherboard! I inserted the Slot 1 400MHz Pentium II and turned the machine on and....(after fiddling in the BIOS) 400MHz is a nice increase over the 266MHz CPU that it came with. I also found a vintage version of CPU-Z called CPU-Z Vintage Edition which can be downloaded here . Unfortunately I couldn't be bothered to get a screenshot of it, so this photo will have to do: I love how it only lists MMX under instructions! Usually it's alphabet soup. Aside from that I've swapped the graphics card with an AGP ATI Rage 3D something or other...