First post, by 0101000000110101
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Greetings everyone, I have stumbled onto this fourm several times over the years, and have finally decided to become part of the community.
I have noticed a fine amount of Gateway 2000s being brought up here, which is nice.
In my situation, I'm trying my absolute hardest to give my Gateway 2000 P5-120 (Which uses the late 80s AT configuration) MMX capabilities, for running a far larger amount of programs and games, such as GTA III, Need For Speed Most Wanted, and newer versions of my favorite 3D animation software Blender.
Here is some useful information about my system;
Socket 5 (originally had a 120Mhz Pentium 1)
The BIOS always shows that CPU regardless of a CPU swap
It has 128MB of EDO RAM
Its new graphics card is a (poorly manufacturered) MSI PCI GeForce 6200 256MB
I have it running Windows XP SP3
So I began with a 166Mhz Pentim OverDrive, which in Windows showed up to run at 159Mhz, and when I launched a program that requires MMX instructions, my computer would restart. Some online sources point to a PSU upgrade, I have attempted this with two different power supplies, and the same result was given.
Today I tried a slightly older Pentium 1 MMX 233Mhz, which looks like the Slot 1 celerons that were re-engineered for socket 370 boards. The result was an apparent frequency of 119Mhz, and when MMX programs are launched, they now cause the system to blue screen, which is progress I guess.
Now that you have full context as to what I have and where I stand, perhaps you guys could share some input.
Thanks guys.
1995 Gateway 2000 P5-120
Intel Pentium P5 120Mhz
16MB EDO RAM
1MB Trident 3D capable GPU
250GB Western Digital IDE drive
OS(s): Windows 98/Windows 2000 SP1