Recent content by reimerron

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    To junk or not to junk: my old computer

    HI Gilby, Checked the motherboard for a number. It IS SY-5VD, not -5VDC. There is nothing else on the board that would be a model number. It is not even on SOYO's list on their site, so do you think it would hurt to put a couple sticks of 64MB or 128 MB RAM in the two slots. It also has 4...
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    To junk or not to junk: my old computer

    Thanks Gilby, that's exactly what I needed to know! reimerron
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    To junk or not to junk: my old computer

    nqc2k, Got DSL and a router, but the internet and everything else is still a lot slower than I'm used to on the new machine. How do I determine how much RAM this processor/motherboard can handle? I have two 32's in there now. I assume that at some point, larger capacity memory is not...
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    To junk or not to junk: my old computer

    Hi Gilby, That's what SOYO support site told me too. I traced the motherboard from some internet site that correlates model number to the BIOS code that shows on the screen at bootup (2A59GS2GC-00). I suspect the model is the original SY model. Seems like the last time I looked at the board...
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    To junk or not to junk: my old computer

    Howdi, Just wondering if my old beater computer can be upgraded. I still use it for programs and hardware that won't run on XP. My wife can get on the internet if I'm busy with photoshop on my new computer. It's an old, read: SLOW, Mitsuba with an Authentic AMD-k5 processor, 64 mB RAM, and...