Need help with old AMD system

[imported_hopeless]

I'm trying to help someone with an old AMD system. All it is really used for is surfing the internet and email, but it is bogging down at times and from what I've found out over the phone it's running out of ram and has to use the swap file.

Over the phone I've managed to find out a couple of things. It has an AMD-K6 3D at 451MHz with 128MB ram running XP. I was going to try and see how cheap it would be to add some more ram but I'm having a bit of trouble iding the mobo to find out what kind it uses. The only info I could get about the mobo is ALI 7101 and ALI M1541. I googled both but only thing I get is sites for drivers.

Thanks

 

[MegaVovaN]

These aren't mobo models....it's power management and IDE management chips. look at this:
http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp.../pc/ptg2011_report.htm

Ask them a model of computer if it's prebuilt.

 

[imported_hopeless]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
These aren't mobo models....it's power management and IDE management chips. look at this:
http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp.../pc/ptg2011_report.htm

Ask them a model of computer if it's prebuilt.

I wasn't positive as to what function those chips had. I was hoping that since I don't know much of anything about AMD systems that it might be enough that someone would have a good idea what type of ram it uses.

It is a prebuilt by Gateway, but she doesn't know anything besides that.

I was thinking about using cpuz to get a bit more facts about it, but it's a bit of a drive to where she is and I'm not positive that it would give me what I'd need to know.

 

[MegaVovaN]

CPUz can save report to a file, so tell her to run CPU-Z, save report to .txt and email you?

 

[JackMDS]

The AMD-K6 3D are old TX mobos at the time of the 450 the switching from the old Dimms to SDRAM started.

Many mobos at that time had 4 slots for old Dimms and 2 slots for SDRAM.

So if the Mobo is populated with old dimms there is No real upgrade.

Some of these Mobos might be also restricted to 128MB max.

Honestly it does not pay to put even a dime in these thingies.

If the person can not afford a New computer getting a P-III level computer in a thrift shop is better deal.

 

[betasub]

K6-III set-ups were designed with PC100 in mind. Not to say you should bother trying to add any, but my old K6-III rig was running W2K pro with a maxed-out config of 3x128MB PC133. The motherboard would only recognise 128MB of any 256MB sticks of PC133 I tried from another system, so it really is down to the limits of the particular motherboard.

 

[nerp]

PC100 ram is hellishly expensive for what you get, too. This person's best bet is to suffer just a little longer and then buy a cheap $350 to $500 prebuilt machine from Dell or something.