minimal comp. speed for software

I had an old 333 mhz comp that I added some things to for a young man who came from Africa to go to school in the US. He couldn't afford anything and I couldn't either right now. I gave it a 13 gig hd, 256 ram, WIN 2000 pro that I already had, and MS Office 2003 pro...It all runs well but I mailed it to him and one of the programs he has for accounting pops up and says the program won't run because it needs a 400 mhz min. Is there a way around this min. situation on this comp? If not I guess I'll just have to save up and upgrade a 700 or something when I can find a cheap one.
Thanks for your help.

 

Know of nothing to help other than upgrade (or switch programs); however, most schools have 'computer labs' for this situation, where students can run such programs. Have him check that out first.

 

Thanks. I'll get the name of the software and drop them a line.

 

Your friend could try overclocking the processor.

 

How is that done?

 

If the processor clock isn't locked, then it can be increased by upping the multiplier. On some motherboards there are jumpers for the FSB and clock multiplier.

But I'm not sure that the processor clock isn't locked. That was one of the original selling points of the AMD. Intel locked it's clock and AMD didn't.

 

The problem is Business Contact Manager updated to MS Office Outlook 2003. At MS it says you need 233 min to run Office, but I didn't notice that down a few lines it says 450 is needed for BCM. I've posted a question on MS Communities with no reply yet. Someone mentioned a work around. What would that entail? Or any other ideas. Not sure why the BCM would require a higher speed.

 

Any ideas?

 

The speed requirement (if being enforced) is an integrated subroutine in the program itself, yes, deplorable, but occasionally seen. There's no real reason for it other than the desire of the programmer to have his/her code appear in it's best light. It's owing to a wish to hide inefficient (bad) programming. There must be other similar programs without such a silly requirement.

Would call the instructor's attention to this, assuming he/she is not the culprit. It's descriminatory.

Overclocking would have to be over 20%, and would be very harmful, possibly destroying the computer.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

One of those old P2s used to be able to clock 150% with no problem. But I think it was the 300 Mhz.

 

Too bad. Guess I'll start searching ebay again. Or Best Buy sales. Thanks y'all.