found 133mhz....

[blk03MitsuES]

fella at work found an older pc. brought it so i could hook it up to see if it works. to my amazement it had dual boots, win98se and xp. xp dont boot thou, it looks like after the loading screen with the green bar and windows logos, i get the blue screen of death........says something about bootdrive error or something like that. and windows 98se loaded up fine but it's all in Chinese. it looks like i was the first to ever run 98se cus it was asking alot of set up questions and there were no user files anywhere. whatever little i ran, it ran ok. no lag or freezing up.

here's the mobo

http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/ecs/P6VEM3V3X.htm (http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/ecs/P6VEM3V3X.htm)


VIA� C3 Samuel2 1 GigaPro processor onboard, up to 133MHz FSB

Integrated with the most advanced technologies:

Hardware monitoring
LAN / modem wake up
Keyboard power on
PROCESSORS

Onboard VIA� C3 Samuel2 1 GigaPro processor
CHIPSET

SiS� 630E single chipset with following features:
Integrated advanced 128-bit 2D/3D graphic engine
LPC I/O - ITE IT8705F
LPC to ISA Bridge - Winbond W93626F
System hardware monitor: Integrated in ITE IT8705F
LAN: Integrated in SiS� 630E
AC97 audio codec with VIA� VT1612A
SYSTEM BIOS

AMI 2Mb Flash ROM
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, AMP 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
Full support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification
MEMORY

2 168-pin DIMM sockets for SDRAM memory module
Maximum: 1GB
I/O INTERFACE

PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
Dual USB 1.1 ports and a LAN connector
1 - EPP/ECP mode parallel port
1 - 16550 high-speed serial I/O port
One VGA connector
Audio ports (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in, CD-in and game port)
Dual PCI IDE interfaces - support 4 IDE devices (PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra DMA 66)
Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 mode FDDs or LS120
ATX power supply connectors
Ports, headers and others:
IrDA header (SIR)
Internal PC speaker header
Extra mic./speaker header
CD-ROM / DVD audio input header
Extra USB ports
HDD LED, reset switch, suspend LED, power switch headers
CPU and chasis fan headers
RTC & BATTERY

Integrate CMOS SRAM in SiS� 630E
With CMOS hardware clear jumper
EXPANSION SLOTS

3 PCI slots, 1 AMR slot
FORM FACTOR

microATX (244mm x 190mm), 4 layers.

so my questions would be what are my options? is it possible to boot xp to see if its in chinese too? cus i got a HDD laying around with 98se in it. might try to swap hard drives to see what happens........all i found from manufacturer is audio, ide and bios files...

and last questions, what can i do with a 133 mhz prosesor?

[Mitternacht]

XP needs a 233 minimum I believe. 133Mhz, DOS and 3.1 definitely. Maybe 9x.

[blk03MitsuES]

XP needs a 233 minimum I believe. 133Mhz, DOS and 3.1 definitely. Maybe 9x.

provably why XP didnt boot but it looks like it was installed.....

[Luke122]

Actually, 133mhz is the FSB that the board supports, not the processor speed. The VIA website says this:

"With a maximum design power of just over 20 watts at 1.4GHz, the VIA C3 runs extremely cool and delivers very low levels of energy consumption. This not only makes it the ideal solution for powering a wide variety of low profile, small form factor PCs, but also enables very low noise system design implementations that are necessary for the emerging generation of Personal Electronics devices for the living room. "

I'd say you just scored quite the find. I'm looking up more details for you now .

*edit* http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c3/

[Luke122]

I just thought of something else.. on boot up, doesnt it display the cpu speed? It might just say something like 8 or 10 x 100 (or 133) which would be the resulting clock speed of the CPU. (Multiplier x bus speed)

Maybe check in the bios to see if there is processor identification, or bus multiplier settings.. it might tell you the cpu speed in there.

[Nagoshi]

You can do ALOT of stuff with a system like that. Mini-server, internet browsing, Mp3 player... possibilities are infinite. :)

[blk03MitsuES]

Actually, 133mhz is the FSB that the board supports, not the processor speed. The VIA website says this:

"With a maximum design power of just over 20 watts at 1.4GHz, the VIA C3 runs extremely cool and delivers very low levels of energy consumption. This not only makes it the ideal solution for powering a wide variety of low profile, small form factor PCs, but also enables very low noise system design implementations that are necessary for the emerging generation of Personal Electronics devices for the living room. "

I'd say you just scored quite the find. I'm looking up more details for you now .

*edit* http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c3/

i just came back cus i found that too. i started looking at labels and everything seemed to be from 02 and up and then it clicked. so i researched and came up with the same info.

it's a gig processor
takes upto a gig of ram(168-pin, 3.3V unbuffered PC100 or PC133 SDRAM)
graphics supports upto 2048x2048
built in hardware monitoring (cpu & sys temp, fan speed, board voltages)

[blk03MitsuES]

so how do i go about checking why XP wont boot?

[blk03MitsuES]

it says its socket 370 but for some reason heatsinks for it look kinda bulky...

think any of these will fit? (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&N=2010110574&PropertyCodeValue=3710%3A26665&bop=And&Order=REVIEWS)

[.Maleficus.]

I have a 1Ghz C3 Mini-ITX board for CS:Server. I was looking for heatsinks for it too (Socket 370) but since it's a Mini-ITX, I doubt I'll have room, but since you have a Micro ATX, you'll probably be fine buying a new one. But to be on the safe side, try to buy the smallest one you can, that has good cooling too. I think I might buy one for mine too, and see if I can fit on on somehow, and if I can't, then I have another thing I can chop up and cannibalize for a different system.

[Nagoshi]

These are Petium3s. You're lucky to have found that, the fastest P3 I have here is a 650 :( Wish I could have your proccy, lol ^_^;

You don't have a heatsink yet, eh? Cause all my P3s runs cool. My 550 was overclocked at 781, achieving the 50C with a dirty heatsink AND loaded... and my 650 is OCed to 815MHz and running around 30-40C loaded. Stock heatsink should be really okay.

And all these heatsinks on newegg.com link you gave us should work.

[chaksq]

I know you realized it was a PIII but just to note to anyone else with a 133 mhz, it will run Windows 2000 Pro. A tad slow but otherwise functional.

[blk03MitsuES]

I know you realized it was a PIII but just to note to anyone else with a 133 mhz, it will run Windows 2000 Pro. A tad slow but otherwise functional.

found a pdf from manufacturer, i guess you can load up XP too.....