Hey guys
I want to upgrade an old computer that was given to me, it is missing the removable side panel with the serial number, and I had to make a side panel from sheet metal to fit.
I want to upgrade the CPU to the max, I know I will need to update the bios and went to the manufactures site which was no help and painfully slow on that system hoping they had the app to identify my system on their site. it also can take 1GB PC 133 memory which I will upgrade later, as of now it only has 1.5 GB of Ram.
HP's system would not let me click next on their identify system app after I checked the appropriate checkbox, the next button remained greyed only and the cancel button was available.
looking for the proper bios update and max CPU I can use, please.
Compaq Evo 500d mini tower
I am hoping I can upgrade to 3.8 GHz Pentium 4, but just about anything will be better than the 1.7 GHz CPU that is in it now.
System Information report written at: 11/13/19 10:38:10
System Name:
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer Compaq
System Model EVO
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1694 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Compaq 686Y2 v2.06, 12/3/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name
Time Zone Central America Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,536.50 MB
Available Physical Memory 396.42 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.35 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Processors Information
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Socket 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Manufacturer GenuineIntel
Name Intel Pentium 4
Codename Willamette
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 478 mPGA (0x2)
CPUID F.1.2
Extended CPUID F.1
Brand ID 8
Core Stepping D0
Technology 0.18 um
Core Speed 1694.1 MHz
Multiplier x Bus Speed 17.0 x 99.7 MHz
Base frequency (cores) 99.7 MHz
Base frequency (ext.) 99.7 MHz
Rated Bus speed 398.6 MHz
Stock frequency 1700 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
Microcode Revision 0x2E
L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Max CPUID level 00000002h
Max CPUID ext. level 80000004h
Cache descriptor Level 2, U, 256 KB, 1 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 1, T, 12 KB, 1 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 1, D, 8 KB, 1 thread(s)
FID/VID Control no
Clock Speed 0 1694.13 MHz (Core #0)
Core 0 max ratio (effective) 17.0
I want to upgrade an old computer that was given to me, it is missing the removable side panel with the serial number, and I had to make a side panel from sheet metal to fit.
I want to upgrade the CPU to the max, I know I will need to update the bios and went to the manufactures site which was no help and painfully slow on that system hoping they had the app to identify my system on their site. it also can take 1GB PC 133 memory which I will upgrade later, as of now it only has 1.5 GB of Ram.
HP's system would not let me click next on their identify system app after I checked the appropriate checkbox, the next button remained greyed only and the cancel button was available.
looking for the proper bios update and max CPU I can use, please.
Compaq Evo 500d mini tower
I am hoping I can upgrade to 3.8 GHz Pentium 4, but just about anything will be better than the 1.7 GHz CPU that is in it now.
System Information report written at: 11/13/19 10:38:10
System Name:
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer Compaq
System Model EVO
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1694 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Compaq 686Y2 v2.06, 12/3/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name
Time Zone Central America Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,536.50 MB
Available Physical Memory 396.42 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.35 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Processors Information
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Socket 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Manufacturer GenuineIntel
Name Intel Pentium 4
Codename Willamette
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 478 mPGA (0x2)
CPUID F.1.2
Extended CPUID F.1
Brand ID 8
Core Stepping D0
Technology 0.18 um
Core Speed 1694.1 MHz
Multiplier x Bus Speed 17.0 x 99.7 MHz
Base frequency (cores) 99.7 MHz
Base frequency (ext.) 99.7 MHz
Rated Bus speed 398.6 MHz
Stock frequency 1700 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
Microcode Revision 0x2E
L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Max CPUID level 00000002h
Max CPUID ext. level 80000004h
Cache descriptor Level 2, U, 256 KB, 1 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 1, T, 12 KB, 1 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 1, D, 8 KB, 1 thread(s)
FID/VID Control no
Clock Speed 0 1694.13 MHz (Core #0)
Core 0 max ratio (effective) 17.0