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This section is dedicated to YOU, the ones who use these eMachines day in and day out, who go and find the latest drivers, look for the latest upgrades, who try to make their machine perform at its best. The following posts are comments, from end users, on what you have found out that has worked for you. Since these posts are end user contributions, use the info contained here at your own risk.
Running WinXP on the eOne

Follow this LINK to an excellent article on installing Windows XP on the eOne. 

Mirrored HERE


FCPGA with Powerleap Neo370, does not work

10.02.01 

Out of curiosity and to finally settle the question once and for all, I bought a Neo370 from Powerleap. I used a FCPGA Celeron II 566mhz with it. Plugged the sucker in and nothing. The eOne wouldn't turn on. Plugged the old 433 back in and it was fine. So I guess we now know for sure that the motherboard does not support VRM8.2. Unless Powerleap comes out with an adapter that also adjusts the voltage we're outta luck.

fschiang


Getting NIC to work with XP

07.16.02 

Well in one last effort to try and get the network card working, I went to the site below and downloaded oem514.zip. It contains several folders of drivers for different versions of windows. 

http://www.network-drivers.com/drivers/22/22752.htm

I then uninstalled all previous attempts to install the card and AnyPoint software by downloading and running CleanDrv.exe from the site below. 

http://apsupport.intel.com/knowbase/root/public/ina8090.htm?
SWStepDev=XP&SWStepNum=2

Note: I tried using the drivers from this site (ap232.drv) but was unsuccessful. I then checked Device Manager to make sure the card was removed, and rebooted. 

When the 'Found New Hardware Wizard' popped up I did the following: 

1. Install from list - next 
2. Don't search - next 
3. Have disk 
4. Browse - go to the unzipped oem514 folder and choose wint50\ndis50\net21x4.inf - open - ok 
5. Choose the 'Intel 21145 based Phoneline/Ethernet Controller' - next 
6. Continue anyway 
7. Finish - driver is installed! 

Now the important part! I have DSL, so I assume this will work for Cable, too. 

1. Open Device Manager 
2. Double click the adapter you just installed 
3. Click Advanced Tab 
4. Check the Connection Type setting. It defaults to 'Homerun'. 
Change it to 'Auto Sense' or '10 Base T'. 
5. Presto...the card linked up with my DSL modem and from then on 
everything worked perfect. I'm connecting up at 650k. 

This was the first set of drivers that gave me a choice to choose a phoneline/ethernet adapter. 

tojacka


320MB RAM

2.6.03

I put the following chip into mine and it works fine. I did this on recommendation of another user who was successful as well. 128 PC 133 will work but 256 PC 133 won't, for 256 stick to PC 100. There was another member who says it doesn't work in his machine and not sure why, so make sure you have a return or exchange policy from whom ever you buy this from.
With the onboard 64 you get a total of 320.

CL2
144-PIN
PC100
Low Density
Guaranteed Compatible Kingston Sdram Recommended by All PC
Makers, including Dell, Compaq, Gateway, HP, Toshiba, and Sony
8ns
Unbuffered
3.3V
Gold Contacts
Non-ECC
Kingston Part # KVR100X64SC2/256

Kaiser


eOne Replacement Parts

01.06.04

I replaced my CD drive from the following company...they can get the one that works wth the eOne bezel... the one I received works just fine but the bezel didn't fit...they would of taken it back but I just needed it to be working so I didn't exchange it...

PETER J PHETHEAN, LTD
363 E CLIFFWOOD PARK #C
BREA, CA 92821-406
714-990-5524
www.phethean.com

1 SAM SN-124
CD-ROM DRIVE NOTEBOOK SAMSUNG
IDE 24X F/W MASTER
$43.75 (INCL. SHIPPING) AS OF 2/11/03

I also replaced my floppy around the same time for about the same money... when calling the outfit below tell the operator what state you live in and the part #... your eject button will interchange or you can keep the new one...

Computer parts Unlimited
David Williamson
800-644-4494
part# 109378

lauras_birds

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Samsung SN-324 Slim 24x-24x-24x+8x DVD/CD-RW Drive

Made by Samsung like the original drive

[Addendum: Check to make sure it will boot. Many replacement CD players will work in your machine for regular CD usage, but will not boot and if you ever have to use your restore CD, you’re out of luck because there isn’t a currently known way to get the operating system off the restore CD without booting it.]

 

 

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