Dell Dimension 2100 (Celeron - 800Mhz)

[coius]

I just received this from a friend of my mom's. I need to check out the specs a bit more, but it's got a Celeron (Pentium III based I am guessing) and it came with windows ME. I will post pics later!

EDIT: It has an 800Mhz Socket-370 Celeron w/ 128K L2 Cache. Well it's at least SOMETHING

 

[coius]

This is supposed to be what it has:

CPU:

Celeron-900 CPU

128KB L2 cache

RAM:

128MB of SDRAM

Operating System:

Windows ME

Storage:

20GB hard drive,

32x24X-48X CD-RW drive

Graphics:

integrated Intel 810 graphics with UMA

Sound:

Creative Labs SoundBlaster 64V PCI sound card

 

[iamdigitalman]

Damn, you seem to be getting a lot of PCs as of late. I need one for compatibility, but I am looking in to getting a Macbook for just such occasions.

Throw Windows 2000 on that, it will scream. I put it on a 366mhz Pentium II and am shocked at the speed. I am used to running it in emulation or on an old 200mhz Pentium, where it crawls.

-digital

 

[coius]

I don't know what's more sad:

The fact that it has 128MB RAM and it's running windows XP

or the fact that XP is not Genuine ^_^

the third thing could be that I don't have 256MB ram (which is the max per slot) and one of the slots has the holding tabs removed and/or it's dead.

I guess it just gets 128MB memory and it's stuck with windows 2k Pro :-/

 

[coius]

Oh! on top of that, no AGP slot

I don't even know how much shared VRAM it has

 

[macintoshman]

4mb

 

[quinterro]

I'm actually repairing one of these right now (really) for a customer. Her machine has a 1.1ghz Celeron, 512MB RAM and what appears to be a 40GB hard disk with Windows 2000. There's also a CD-RW drive, but it's between 8x and 16x and doesn't work very well.

Initlally it had some file system damage that was repaired by running check disk from another computer. I have also had to clear out the password so I could log into the system.

It's running Spybot as I type. Unfortunately I can't wipe the system and start from scratch-she wants her programs saved.

 

[coius]

4mb

BZZT! actually, I just looked it up. It's only 2MB ^_^ ;; (although it will use up to 18MB for hardware acceleration functions).

Wow, that is TRULY sad. FYI, i am going to try to get 256MB RAM for it.

Here's what I have thrown into it:

PNY PCI nVidia Vanta LT Pro 16MB VRAM w/ 3d acceloration.

Replaced the 20GB 5400RPM w/ 2MB Cache, with a 40GB 7200RPM w/ 8MB Cache.

Also, i am checking with a friend that has my old Power Macintosh G3 (beige) that I believe has a 256MB DIMM. Hopefully he can dig it out of his basement and get it for me

He will be over tomorrow with the case I need for the server I built, and he will have the RAM for this. So, wish me luck!!!

BTW, I am not going to buy any parts for this system. With a half-functional motherboard (one RAM slot, no AGP), it's not worth throwing a bigger CPU in it, or trying to get a better video card/bigger HDD. So this is the end of the line

 

[coius]

I am going to experiment with Debian Linux and see how it goes. It's supposed to be pretty decent on this system. It just sucks that one of the RAM slots broke

It also seems it splits one of the ends on it. So the contacts aren't really touching the RAM stick. If I could fix it, it *might* work. I put a RAM Stick in and it saw it, but it didn't do very well on booting into windows. It spit out errors

 

[coius]

hmm... Little update on VRAM. It seems it will use up to 12MB VRAM on it. it's AGP Based, but I don't know which is better. An nVidia Vanta LT Pro w/ 16MB Video, or an AGP-Based 810i w/ 12MB VRAM. It's supposed to be dynamic. Anyone got any clue as to which is better?

 

[macintoshman]

My dell has 810i. It sucks.

Any nVidia/ATI is better