Pentium 2 266 = Celron ? 1

[xchefpeter]

I did a favor for this guy and in lew of $$$ he gave me this dead box: HP Pavillion 8250. On the box it said it has a celeroin chip running W95. When I first pluged it in and tried to boot it was dead no post no blue screen nothing.
So I unplugged took everything apart clean out the dust monsters replaced a few chips and some of the sdimms, cleaned the contacts on the hard drive replace the ribbon cables and booted up. Holy bits and bytes it worked, still a little noisy in the hard drive but hey what the ......
In the properties screen it reads a celeron chip with Win Me. During boot it showed Me. I go into BIOS and it shows P2 266mhz I do a Belarc scan and it shows a P2.
Was a P2 ever known as a Celeron chip? can anybody shed any light on this box? and does anybody know anything about an Ausus KL97-XV motherboard? its no longer listed on Ausus
web site.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I need to upgrade and refurbush this machine. I can't buy groceries with trade.

xchefpeter
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[ANFPS26]

Here are the specs:

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/docume...lion5911&docName=bph03868&cat=prodinfo#P7_202

Jim

 

[Blujacket]

An additional link:

http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/docume...&prodId=hppavilion5911&docName=bph01767.html.

 

[cdogg]

Blujacket,
xchefpeter has already tried the steps mentioned in your link:
"[blue]In the properties screen it reads a celeron chip with Win Me. During boot it showed Me. I go into BIOS and it shows P2 266mhz I do a Belarc scan and it shows a P2[/blue]"

xchefpeter,
I would trust the reading in the BIOS and from Belarc. System properties just reports what might have been installed at the time the OS was loaded. It's not a live reading and can be changed through the registry.

Another quick test would be to go to Start->Run and type dxdiag. After hitting OK, it might take a few minutes, but it will eventually show you a list of tabs for DirectX. On the first tab you should see another reading of your CPU.

Of course, the best way is to examine the CPU physically.


~cdogg
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[paparazi]

Xchefpeter
As it is less than a 3 minute job to remove the CPU heatsink to look at the processor , that would be the easiest and most foolproof method of correct identification.
Martin

Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[mainegeek]

Hello Xchefpeter,
It's probably a secc processor hence the P2. If so, you can probably upgrade it rather cheaply ($40) with a celeron 500 using a slotkit.

 

[xchefpeter]

thanks guys all responses were great .
Cddogg you were right on about the dxdiag utility... it gave me the full answer. Great tip hope you don't mind but I'm going to steal it an make it mine (lol).
Btw I also went back in and removed the heat sink and the id number did not come up on Intel's search.

Just so you know: Intel Celeron MNX 266Hz
160 MB Ram
on Me

I think the best way to upgrade is replace the motherboard chip and hard drive ( only 6GB )
thanks again

xchefpeter
A+N+MCP
Pending MCSA>MCSE>CCNA
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I never know my limitations until I exceed them