Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Geek-9pm on November 24, 2013, 02:50:56 PM
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This is not really a software issue. It is a hardware question.
about a year ago I bought a refurbished Optiplex GX 520 fro a eBay vendor. Now the wartrtenty is up and I still have issues with the video,. The PC will crash while watching Netflix. This Dell SSF PC came with Windows 7 64 bit installed. The vendor did that, not Dell. This Dell machine was originally sold with Windows XP and has the old COA on it.
Everest Home says I have a Presler with two cores.
My research indicates the original CPU must have been a Prescott. But the Pentium D it now has is a Presler Pentium D. (Why does the spell check not like Presler?
A search on Prescott Pentium D shows there was no such a thing.
So, I am wondering. Was that the problem? The refurbish company used a new CPU in an older board? Can I salvage this PC?
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That would be determined by what MBoard it is...
Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen.
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Sorry, Geek, you don't know how to search for CPU's.
http://www.cpu-world.com/index.html
Prescott is a Celeron-D
Pressler is a Pentium-D
D's are 1st generation dual core, most, if not all are 64-bit & use Socket 775.
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That would be determined by what MBoard it is...
Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen.
I think the mobo was made before 1007. The BIOS says 2006, but I think the vendor upgraded the BIOS. The motherboard bight be from 2005. I can not find a clear indication of which version it is.
Everest reports it as a GC520 motherboard. The original CPU, a single core Prescott CPU, is now about 2 or 4 dollars on eBay. So that would be one way to get it to work. But I just now ordered a couple of cheap Pentium D CPUs with lower clock rate, 2.8 rather than 3.4 that it now has. Maybe I shall have to dump it.
(Cue in the William Tell Overture.. tothe dump tothe dump tothe dump dump dump.)
But I hate to throw the thing into the dump. Here in California you have to take electronic trash to a special place to dispose.
Actually, I could by a used GX620 motherboard on eBay. :-\
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If it's a Dell, it's got a Service Tag. Look it up on Dell's support site.
http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19
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Thanks, Computer_Commando
From the link uou gave I found:
Celeron Dual-Core desktop family replaced single-core Celeron 400 series microprocessors, that were released in the middle of 2007. First dual-core Celerons were based on Allendale core, which, besides the second core, had practically the same features as single-core Celeron 400 series CPUs
That is a key bit of information. The motherboard was made before 2007, so was never sold with a dual-core Cleon. Yet the Celeron was listed by somebody on the Dell forum as a possible replacement that would give me 64 bit.
So maybe I should have tried a Celeron instead.
EDIT: I did the Dell site with the tag. No recommendations from Dell. But the social forum had this question posted sometime ago and said the fast Pentium D will crash the system. Too fast for the 945 chip set.
In a few days I will see if the2.8 GHz Pentium Ds In ordered will work.
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It will show an inventory sheet of the "as shipped" .
Post the Service Tag, I'll get it.