"Invent" is just the company slogan from the mid 2000s, does the computer have a model number like "HP Pavillion a1224n" or something like that on the front or back

NeoG_ wrote on 2026-06-18, 00:25:

"Invent" is just the company slogan from the mid 2000s, does the computer have a model number like "HP Pavillion a1224n" or something like that on the front or back

The motherboard came on its own

Looking up info from HP, it says to go to Advanced -> Device Options

cyclone3d wrote on 2026-06-18, 21:32:

Looking up info from HP, it says to go to Advanced -> Device Options

So I had a look in there thanks! and from the bottom of the "advanced" tab I found
"I/O Device configerations" and pressing enter I found the following page with the following

Parallel port address [378]
Parallel port mode [ECP]
Parallel port IRQ [IRQ7]
dont know what they mean; but am i in the right bit of BIOS plz?

I/O is for stuff like serial and parallel port (ports to hook up stuff like mice, printers, etc.)

I would say to just go through every menu one by one.

Does your CPU actually have hyper threading?

cyclone3d wrote on 2026-06-20, 01:27:

I/O is for stuff like serial and parallel port (ports to hook up stuff like mice, printers, etc.)

I would say to just go through every menu one by one.

Does your CPU actually have hyper threading?

Sorry I do not know that! all i was told on another thread hear that this was the way to turn a duel core pentium into a single core pentuims so the games would run well on it

Im from Windows wrote on 2026-06-20, 17:01:

cyclone3d wrote on 2026-06-20, 01:27:

I/O is for stuff like serial and parallel port (ports to hook up stuff like mice, printers, etc.)

I would say to just go through every menu one by one.

Does your CPU actually have hyper threading?

Sorry I do not know that! all i was told on another thread hear that this was the way to turn a duel core pentium into a single core pentuims so the games would run well on it

Hear it is!
Re: simcity 3000 and 4 not working!

PS Cant see the edit post tab

Download CPU-Z and see what it reports the CPU as.

cyclone3d wrote on 2026-06-20, 19:05:

Download CPU-Z and see what it reports the CPU as.

they dont do a 32bit version! and one that is capatible with win xp either

Try CPU-Z Vintage or older CPU-Z version like 1.3x or 1.4x...

The older versions are still available. Try 1.79:
https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.79-en.exe

cyclone3d wrote on 2026-06-21, 20:15:

The older versions are still available. Try 1.79:
https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.79-en.exe

OK so I have managed to download and install it and it has given me a note pad file, is this right? is this what you mean by display the info of the CPU? any way file attached thanks!

That is just the readme file. You need to launch CPU-Z and it should bring up a GUI and you can gather the info from there.

That seems to be just a "README" file describing CPU-Z itself, not output from the program. I'm not terribly familier with CPU-Z but I would expect it to tell you where it put it's output when you run it.

I don't think any P4s are multi-core, a few supported hyper-threading but IIRC those were called "P4 HT"

cyclone3d wrote on 2026-06-23, 21:40:

That is just the readme file. You need to launch CPU-Z and it should bring up a GUI and you can gather the info from there.

there is no CPU-Z program present on this machine!