Ok heres the deal seeing as my sisters laptop bit the dust i need to get her a working computer and i have this old Compaq Presario 5000 (Exact spects bellow) I also have a Athlon 1.4 GHz/200 processor out of a old HP Pavilion XT983 Desktop but have no idea how to change out the chip set proprly. any help would be most helpfull
thanks

Operating System System Model
Windows Millennium Edition (build 4.90.3000) Compaq Compaq PC
System Serial Number: 2H0AFPN7G313
Enclosure Type: Mini-Tower
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
900 megahertz AMD Athlon
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Compaq 06E4h
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Compaq 786K1 09/14/2000
Drives Memory Modules c,d
30.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
10.00 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

COMPAQ CD-ROM LTN403
WPI CDRW-4424 [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic IDE hard disk drive (29.99 GB) -- drive 0, No SMART Driver
IOMEGA ZIP 100 [Hard drive] -- drive 255, rev 23.D 512 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM1' has 128 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 128 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 256 MB
Local Drive Volumes


c: (FAT32 on drive 0) 27.07 GB 8.36 GB free
d: (FAT32 on drive 0) 2.92 GB 1.64 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
MSHOME domain logons
default 6/4/2008 10:05:18 PM

EPSON Stylus COLOR 480SXU on \\COMPAQ\PRINTER
Lexmark Z22-Z32 Series on LPT1:
Controllers Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller RADEON 7500 SERIES [Display adapter]
CTX 1765 [Monitor] (15.2"vis, November 1996)
Default Monitor
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller (2x) SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Communications Other Devices
HSP56 MicroModem

Hi Dragio and welcome to D-A-L

there's not alot of difference between the 900 and the 1.4 but to change the processor have a look here Fitting the CPU

not forgetting ESD

Check your MB to see if it is capable of handling a bigger CPU. 900 may be all the bigger you can go. You may be limited. If changing CPU you may want to use arctic silver 5 Thermal Compound.

Thanks for the info and the worm welcome brain_damage Ill be shure to look it over before I try anything and poast here if i need any more help

also thanks twobits for the sujestion Ill keep it in mind