Easycola
December 14, 2000, 10:23 am
Bobovuk, you wrote:
Hi.
I have an IBM Aptiva with a K6-2 380 MHz processor with the following specifications:
System board: V75M-UMA
System board chipset: SiS 5595
System board form factor: micro-ATX
For obvious reasons I want to replace the CPU with K6-2 550 MHz (i know, i know, it's like upgrading your old shoes instead of buying new ones, but to buy new shoes i'd have to buy a new system board and god knows (i certainly don't) what else i'd have to buy...a new computer perhaps, but i get so attached to things, i just can't let go
Well, I have the 'privilege' of using member-only IBM support discussion board. I used it to ask the support staff if the motherboard (or whatever else makes these things work) would support the new processor. I got an official IBM processor upgrade statement that can be summarized as follows: we are a huge corporation that doesn't want you to get away with a better computer cheap, we want you to buy a whole new shiny thing from IBM, therefore we will not answer you question. And they didn't.
If there are any experts on such antiquities as an AMD K6-2 CPU out there, would you please try answering my question.
Thanks.
bobo
To my understanding, you most likely have 2170-serie aptiva, which is equipped with ACER OEM motherboard provided for IBM. Most of Aptiva series IBM computers are equipped with Acer (or nowadays Aopen) OEM motherboards and usually lame chipsets like SIS.
You can confirm this by checking out Acer V75M motherboard manual, if it may visually "ring the bell". Look out this link:
ftp://ftp.acer.de/pc/v75m/manual/v75m.pdf
Important notification, DON'T use Acers BIOS upgrades. Latest BIOS upgrade for 2170-serie Aptivas can be downloaded from here: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4JSSC9.html? If you don't have 2170 serie Aptiva, find out right one from IBM support site and check out if there are any recent BIOS updates provided.
Also, IBM does provide motherboard layouts and jumper settings, but as mentioned, no upgrade support(2170 motherboard layout and jumper settings at following link): http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-48QTHR.html
Also, as Aptiva PC user quite commonly knows, official IBM support stinks, baddly, so I recommend that you would address your question about upgrading Aptiva to this forum (Unofficial Aptiva Message Board): http://www.novogate.com/cgi-bin/aptiva/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
because there are many whose have done this before you and gotten needed information/experiences considering e.g processor upgrading when speaking about Aptivas. So, no need to dig out all information by yourself, ask from them...http://www.helpfromtechs.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif
Regards,
Easycola
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<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Easycola on December 14, 2000 at 07:25 AM</font>
Hi.
I have an IBM Aptiva with a K6-2 380 MHz processor with the following specifications:
System board: V75M-UMA
System board chipset: SiS 5595
System board form factor: micro-ATX
For obvious reasons I want to replace the CPU with K6-2 550 MHz (i know, i know, it's like upgrading your old shoes instead of buying new ones, but to buy new shoes i'd have to buy a new system board and god knows (i certainly don't) what else i'd have to buy...a new computer perhaps, but i get so attached to things, i just can't let go
Well, I have the 'privilege' of using member-only IBM support discussion board. I used it to ask the support staff if the motherboard (or whatever else makes these things work) would support the new processor. I got an official IBM processor upgrade statement that can be summarized as follows: we are a huge corporation that doesn't want you to get away with a better computer cheap, we want you to buy a whole new shiny thing from IBM, therefore we will not answer you question. And they didn't.
If there are any experts on such antiquities as an AMD K6-2 CPU out there, would you please try answering my question.
Thanks.
bobo
To my understanding, you most likely have 2170-serie aptiva, which is equipped with ACER OEM motherboard provided for IBM. Most of Aptiva series IBM computers are equipped with Acer (or nowadays Aopen) OEM motherboards and usually lame chipsets like SIS.
You can confirm this by checking out Acer V75M motherboard manual, if it may visually "ring the bell". Look out this link:
ftp://ftp.acer.de/pc/v75m/manual/v75m.pdf
Important notification, DON'T use Acers BIOS upgrades. Latest BIOS upgrade for 2170-serie Aptivas can be downloaded from here: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4JSSC9.html? If you don't have 2170 serie Aptiva, find out right one from IBM support site and check out if there are any recent BIOS updates provided.
Also, IBM does provide motherboard layouts and jumper settings, but as mentioned, no upgrade support(2170 motherboard layout and jumper settings at following link): http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-48QTHR.html
Also, as Aptiva PC user quite commonly knows, official IBM support stinks, baddly, so I recommend that you would address your question about upgrading Aptiva to this forum (Unofficial Aptiva Message Board): http://www.novogate.com/cgi-bin/aptiva/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
because there are many whose have done this before you and gotten needed information/experiences considering e.g processor upgrading when speaking about Aptivas. So, no need to dig out all information by yourself, ask from them...http://www.helpfromtechs.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif
Regards,
Easycola
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<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Easycola on December 14, 2000 at 07:25 AM</font>