A friend was comjplaining that his PC was way to slow, which it was. He was running an XP 1700 (not positive on that one) but it did seem alot slower than it should have. Anyway, not knowing much about comjputers he wanted the quick fix. He purchased an XP 2600+, (266 FSB), and ask me to install it for him. After installing it the bios didn't recognize it so I flashed the bios to the latest and all seemed OK. Here is the problem. It is still unbearably slow with no difference at all. Here is a breakdown of his system in hopes that someone ccould suggest things for me to try as I feel bad for the guy after buying the new CPU that didn't help. He is not out to get the highest possible FPS just something that will run things so you can at least play them.
Thanks
OS: WinXP with SP1.
An older Geforce MX
256 mb sdram
Here is specs on motherboard which is PC Chips 810L Series with SIS 730s chipset.
Socket-462 Processor Support
Supports AMD Athlon XP/Duron processors
Supports 200/266 MHz Front-Side Bus
Processors are automatically configured using firmware and a synchronous Host/DRAM Clock Scheme.
Memory Support
Two DIMM slots for 168-pin SDRAM memory modules
Support for 100/133 MHz memory bus
Maximum installed memory is 2 x 512MB = 1GB
Thanks
OS: WinXP with SP1.
An older Geforce MX
256 mb sdram
Here is specs on motherboard which is PC Chips 810L Series with SIS 730s chipset.
Socket-462 Processor Support
Supports AMD Athlon XP/Duron processors
Supports 200/266 MHz Front-Side Bus
Processors are automatically configured using firmware and a synchronous Host/DRAM Clock Scheme.
Memory Support
Two DIMM slots for 168-pin SDRAM memory modules
Support for 100/133 MHz memory bus
Maximum installed memory is 2 x 512MB = 1GB