I own a Compaq Deskpro EB/SP series. I want to know the model, but its
not printed on the motherboard and none of the located numbers etc
give me any help.
Does anybody know? The board says it'll support 350mhz-500mhz
processors in slot1. thanks

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 19 Mar 2003 23:05 PST

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Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 19 Mar 2003 23:38 PST

Is there anything else printed on the motherboard? Maybe a brand name
or chipset number (such as Intel ###, Via KT###, etc.)? Well, I'm sure
that board supports only Intel processors, being Slot 1. Maybe it's
mentioned in the manual for your system.

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Clarification of Question by jeffy-ga on 24 Mar 2003 04:51 PST

Thankyou to livioflores-ga

If you could please post that as an answer.

Thankyou

Hello jeffy!!

It is always a good new to know that I have found the answer to your
questions.
Thank you for give me the chance to do that.

Now the answer:

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benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details
of all components of the PC. It can display information on the screen,
print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or XML.
For corporate users, AIDA32 offers command-line switches, network
audit and audit statistics, remote system information and network
management.
 
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For personal use: AIDA32 is a FREEWARE application, so it's free to
distribute and use for any non-business purposes.


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Best Regards.
livioflores-ga

Answer was perfect, provided me with a website which gave me a
software program that gave me a detailed report about the hardware.

Compaq designs its own motherboards, so you aren't going to find it to
be identical or even similar to a mass-market product.

Since you refer to a "slot", I will assume that this is one of the
early Pentium II models.  The motherboard probably supports 66MHz and
100MHz system bus speeds and PC100 memory.  One option that MAY work
is to buy a small daughtercard called a "slotket" (sells for about
$40) - this has a "Socket 370" on it which can accept a Pentium III or
Celeron processor up to 1.0GHz.  I successfully used one of these to
upgrade an Asus P2B motherboard that originally had a Pentium II 450. 
The downside of this is that these processors are very hard to find
nowadays, and it is unlikely that Compaq issued a revised BIOS to
support newer processors.

I think you would be far better off to simply buy a new motherboard
and appropriate processor, if you can find one that fits. 
Unfortunately, the Deskpro models have a Compaq-unique layout and a
standard ATX board may not fit - especially considering the "riser"
card these models tend to use for the option cards.  Then again, new
cases are inexpensive too!

At some point, trying to upgrade an old box, especially one as
custom-designed as the Compaq DeskPro, is a waste of effort and
money...

That said, http://www.compaq.com/support is an excellent reference for
documentation about Compaq PCs, including service guides, parts lists
and more.

For other readers here is an article on identifying the make/model of
your motherboard: http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/moboid1.html