i used to have a pentium 3 computor after changing a few setting's and reformating it says it is a pentium 2 how do i upgrade it back to pentium 3
2006-08-17 05:40:21 · 4 answers · asked by hatemotion 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
In order for your PC to have changed from a P3 to a P2 you would have had to physically taken the P3 processor out of it and replaced it with a P2 processor. I doubt you did that. So what probably happened is that whey re formatted the hard drive you did not reinstall the chipset dirvers for the system board. So Windows 98 does not have a driver to give the information on what processor is in your computer. So it is just listing a generic name rather than the real name. It should not affect the way your PC runs. But you can try going to the website of the PC's manufacturer and see if they still drivers available for Windows 98 (good luck - they will be ancient). But the PC should still function just like it use to without the drivers. It was just display different inforamtion in the listing.
2006-08-17 05:51:42 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 05:03:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your motherboard is not recognizing your CPU properly. Did you change some BIOS settings? Formatting your hard drive would not have caused this problem.
2006-08-17 05:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by armyguy298 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terrific !
Please tell me how you've done it, I'd love to change my P4 to a 8086 :-)
Just kidding...
Try to reset your Bios settings to defaults, and if it's a jumperless motherboard, try to find the motherboard's doc.
2006-08-17 05:47:42 · answer #4 · answered by Bon Scott 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋