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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.
Max
Processor Speed
01.05.02
I have
had so many emails wanting to know, "Can I over-clock
this Florida-C/TG/TGA mobo? What is the fastest I can go
with this Florida-C/TG/TGA?". The answer is 533Mhz. Due
to the architecture of the board (PPGA), 533Mhz is the
limit. There are no jumpers for FSB, multiplier, or core
voltage settings, so over-clocking is out of the
question.
TD25x
Max
RAM
02.13.02
I upgraded
a 400ix from 256 to 512 with no problems. I had 1 256
PC100 chip and added a 2nd 256 PC100 [double-sided].
I also upgrade the CPU from 400 to 533 as well as
upgraded the HD from the factory 6.4GB to a 60GB drive.
markfcal
How To
Disable On-board Video
01.04.03
First
install the PCI video card...either put it into PCI slot
one or if that is taken put it into PCI slot 2 and boot
up with the monitor plugged into the old onboard video.
Hit delete during the boot emachines splash screen to
get into the bios and set "Primary video" to "PCI".
Don't mess with anything else other than primary video.
Now exit and save changes...while its rebooting plug the
monitor into the new card. I'm not going to cover how to
install the drivers and so on for the new card as it
should have came with info for that.
Now to disable the onboard video...there is a jumper on
the motherboard to disable the onboard AGP. Look here
http://www.emachine-upgraders.info/dir1/motherboards/socket370/floridatg.htm
and under the jumpers link for a location of the jumper.
99% of the time this jumper doesn't disable onboard AGP
but disables it from use...it still shows up in the
device manager and grayed out in the display settings.
So what you will also need to do is go into the device
manager (right click on "my computer" select Properties
and in windows 9x/me it will be the device manager tab,
in other versions of windows it will be the hardware tab
then click on device manager) expand the "display
adapters/devices" find the onboard ATI video card and
disable it.. either right click on it and select disable
or double click on it and use the drop down to set it to
disable in the profile.
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