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Acer Aspire desktop 5150LR built 97-3-10

Zeugitai

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Just got it (nostalgia; old games; etc). The BIOS gives no information about the system board and CPU. During bootup, this time a text screen shows "Pentium 133," and next time it shows "Pentium 166." This is disconcerting. Looking at the system board I find "V55LA MB." It has two open sockets for vram (514260ASL), and judging by its performance so far, I need to fill those sockets. It is running on all of 1MB video ram, and 16MB system RAM (72-pin EDO SIMM 60ns). I'd really like to know which CPU is that Socket 7 ZIF, and the bus speed of this board, because the system sorely needs a boost in performance/CPU upgrade. I intend to max out the RAM to 128MB. Why would the system show Pentium 133 this time and Pentium 166 the next time? Thanks!!:confused:
 
Turns out it was Pentium 150MHz. Can anyone help me with two more things: CPU frequency ratio for Pentium 200/MMX that I am installing; and where the CPU jumper settings are made. V55LA motherboard chart shows "off-on-off-on" for the Pentium 200, but I can't spot the "CPU jumper" on the motherboard. CPU frequncy ratio offers 5/2, 3/2, 2/1, and 3/1. I think I'm dealing with 66MHz FSB.
 
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