Enough Memory?

Question

I just purchased an old Latitude CP notebook. 233 MHZ, and 128 MB of RAM, with a 2.1 GB hard drive. It came with a cd-rom drive and windows xp installed. I want to install a dvd drive. Do I need more memory or anything else before I even think about buying the dvd drive? And another dumb question, can I play cd's or software disc's in the dvd drive? Or is it dvd movies only? Oh and 1 more,  I didn't see a port for a telephone line for internet use, do I need an external modem?

elcheapogifts · Answer

Hello,

128 megabytes of ram is fine but your cpu is abit on the slow side. I would look on Ebay for a 266MHz or 300MHz Pentium II cpu and swap it out. There are plenty of DVD drives on Ebay, good for games, music, apps, etc. Jerry

mgator1 · Answer

is that easy to do? my uncle works on computers so I think he could do it for me. Whats the average price on those?

elcheapogifts · Answer

Hello,

They range in price, average around $20.00 with shipping. You need the MMC-1 type. The keyboard comes off with six screws. The heatsink comes off with two screws. The cpu board assy comes off with three screws, board plugs in, no soldering needed. You will need to flash the bios in order to use the PII cpu versus the PI chip. I will send another post tonight with the bios attachment. Jerry

mgator1 · Answer

thanks, u are very helpful

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