I hope I'm in the right forum.
I recently built a couple low end machines for my kids. Each are identical. PC100 SS7 M599LMR, AMD K6-2 450's, 128RAM, W/98SE using the built in sound and graphics. They are perfect for the kids (young) needs right now and even play alot of their games fine. But I have one problem machine.
I cannot get this one system to recognize the processor as a 100/450. It will only boot at 66/166 and is obviously slow as molassis and won't run the games like the others. I cannot for the life of me figure out why. The bios, windows (including patches and updates), hardware, software, everything are set exactly the same on all machines. But this one machine will not do the right thing. I even tried the processor on one of the other machines to check it and it is fine.
I have researched everywhere I can think of. Because these boards are older the search references tend to be too. I know these boards can be finicky but there has to be something I'm either missing or a trick out there I don't know about. I tried the alleged patch made for this problem and nada. Can't get it to load. I know I can't be the first to have this happen so there must be a way to fix it. I'm just not sure if it is windows or the board that is the main problem.
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated especially from the daughter who wants to play SimCoaster on her computer. Sure hope I put this in the right forum. Forgive me if I didn't.
Thanks in advance
I recently built a couple low end machines for my kids. Each are identical. PC100 SS7 M599LMR, AMD K6-2 450's, 128RAM, W/98SE using the built in sound and graphics. They are perfect for the kids (young) needs right now and even play alot of their games fine. But I have one problem machine.
I cannot get this one system to recognize the processor as a 100/450. It will only boot at 66/166 and is obviously slow as molassis and won't run the games like the others. I cannot for the life of me figure out why. The bios, windows (including patches and updates), hardware, software, everything are set exactly the same on all machines. But this one machine will not do the right thing. I even tried the processor on one of the other machines to check it and it is fine.
I have researched everywhere I can think of. Because these boards are older the search references tend to be too. I know these boards can be finicky but there has to be something I'm either missing or a trick out there I don't know about. I tried the alleged patch made for this problem and nada. Can't get it to load. I know I can't be the first to have this happen so there must be a way to fix it. I'm just not sure if it is windows or the board that is the main problem.
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated especially from the daughter who wants to play SimCoaster on her computer. Sure hope I put this in the right forum. Forgive me if I didn't.
Thanks in advance
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