Unless I'm missing something, I think you mean to replace the motherboard
and the 1 gig Pentium with a new motherboard and 2.4 gig chip.  I assume
your main machine is not that new either, and its existing motherboard is
not upgradeable to a 2.4gig cpu.

If that is true, then you most probably can get the old motherboard, 1 gig
cpu, and memory from your main machine into the Aptiva.  The Aptiva stuff
that remains, video card, hard drive, cdrom, will all work with the 1 gig in
the Aptiva case.  The main machine gets new memory too, and the parts bin in
the garage gets the Aptiva's amd motherboard, amd cpu, and whatever sdram
memory was also in it.

One thing to consider, an upgrade of this magnitude can lead from one thing
to another.  Soon so many parts originally in the main machine have migrated
into the Aptiva that there is nothing from the Aptiva you appeared to
salvage, there was always an 'upgrade' to be had from the main machine, as
one by one all its parts were improved.  When you're done, you wondered why
ever took the Aptiva apart, now that you have a complete collection of
serviceable Aptiva parts and no case to house them in.  It would have made
more sense to get a new case, and slowly put everything that comes out of
the main machine into it, as budget permits, until you have 3 systems.  Then
you can retire the Aptiva intact, possibly to a worthy cause.  This also
gives you the  slight advantage of always having two working systems.  From
my own past experience, once I got the Aptiva's chest cracked, there's no
telling when its heart would beat again.  It can become a real malingering
patient.  All these improvements to it means its disassembled more often
than assembled and being used, which is not a useful state of affairs.
Tom Turak


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul J. Traynor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 5:55 AM

Hi All,

I am going to  replace  my current inttel processor which is a 1gb
processor with a 2.4 intel chip. Now I have an Aptiva computer which is
about 4 years old and carries an AMD processor of 500 mhz, my question
is could I put in the 1GB intel processor into the Aptiva which I have
taken out of  my main machine.

Paul.

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