First post, by bluejeans
Picked up a rusted compaq prolinea 3 at a recycling shop (they salvage stuff off the tip) incredibly it still works with all original parts. However the cpu socket doesn't have a handle to "release" the cpu, I'd need to pull it out like with a chip puller but I'd really rather not. Can I set it to 66mhz since it has a heatsink and fan? Don't think I can run it at 50 because the jumper it's set to is 25/50 so it would probably drop to 25:
Just for arguments' sake, if I could get my dx4-100 in there, could I run it at 66 and/or 80?
Finally, do I have to solder this battery off? It's a metal tab and the battery doesn't seem to want to come out, like it's attached firmly to something on the board:
No idea how I'd get the cpu out safely: