07.13.02

I have a T1150 with the Lomita motherboard and this is what I did to install a Geforce 4mx 420 in mine... I am assuming you are running Windows XP.... First go to My Computer and on the left choose View System Information, next choose Hardware then Device Manager. Under Display Adapters you should see Intel 82810.. Right click this and choose Disable, Windows will ask if you are sure, just choose Yes. Now
Windows will ask you to Restart, DON'T!!! Choose NO!! Now you want to Shutdown the computer and unplug it to install your new card. Install the new card in a PCI slot and after putting everything back together hook your monitor up to the new card. Now you must power on the computer and enter the BIOS by hitting the delete key when you see the
E-Machines splash screen, you have to be fast (I usually keep hitting delete as soon as I push the power button). You should see Entering Setup appear on the lower left of the E-Machines screen. Once in the BIOS use the right arrow key to get to the Advanced tab, here you should see an option to change the video from AGP (the built in card)
to PCI. Choose PCI and your new card is now the default. Save changes and exit the BIOS and your computer should restart and your new card is ready. If you don't get a picture after hooking up your new card try hooking the monitor to the built in video and changing the BIOS setting before you hook it to the new card. Also you can leave the built in video enabled in Windows if you want, then you can use 2 monitors. Well, that's the procedure I used and it works on mine just fine. Hope I was of some help. By the way, as far as I know those 2 jumpers don't do anything to the onboard video, they just reset the
CMOS and BIOS password. Should be a label on the inside of your case that says what they do. Note: when you have to use the restore disks you may have to hook the monitor to the onboard video until you can disable it in device manager again.

dpollard55

Memory Upgrade

06.28.03

I just had to upgrade the stock 128MB PC-133 DIMM in an eMachine Model T1440. It was tricky, but I worked out the process... hopefully others will benefit from my frustrated hair-pulling.

1) Before installing additional or new memory you will have to first go into BIOS and disable "QuickBoot".

2) Save your BIOS settings and power down.

3) Install the memory.

4) Power up and verify BIOS recognizes memory size.

5) Verify Windows XP recognizes memory amount.

6) Log off and power down.

7) Power up and enter BIOS.

8) Enable "QuickBoot".

9) Save BIOS settings and allow PC to boot to Windows XP.

Specifications:
eMachine T1440
Motherboard: TriGem Lomita
MotherBoard Chipset: Intel 810e Chipset
Intel Celeron 1.4GHz Level 2 Cache 256 MB
128MB SDRAM PC-133 (Mgr. stock brands are Crucial and Samsung)
40GB Hard Drive
24x CD-RW drive
56K Modem
Windows® XP

The memory specs are:

PC133 SDRAM DIMM is used by this model
Maximum memory: 512MB (2 banks of 256MB)
Standard memory: 128MB removable
Slots: 2 (2 banks of 1)

PCWriter

CPUcool Info

11.27.03 

For the Lomita "LM810E" board that comes in my T1440 the pll ic is 9250CF-16. In CPUcool use the pll designated as "9250-16B" if your stock FSB is 100 MHz. If it is 66 MHz use "9250-16A".

Mobo Upgrade

08.26.09

Hey folks - just finished installing the ASUS mATX Mobo into my T1115. This was just for giggles, wanted to keep the stock sleeper look of the mini-tower but couldn't handle the Celeron and constrained mobo and memory anymore. ASUS P5KPL-CM fits fine, just slightly bigger than the stock Trigem Lomita Mobo. This wasn't about $$ as I'm sure there are more cost-effective ways to go, especially since you still have future upgrade limitations due to the small tower size, ie, extra drives, etc. I opted for a stand-alone copy of XP Pro from eBay.

Very straight-forward project, went with a Pentium dual core E5200 2.5 processor, 2GB Kingston stick, 300W Coolmax mATX power supply from Fry's. Although the T1115 does not have a system fan at the back, there is a mounting location on the roof of the chassis. I removed the top of the box to install a standard fan. If you wanted to avoid the hassle of removing the top, which is painful, you could probably get creative and use rubber grommets to mount it to the roof from the inside.

I am running both the hard drive and the stock CD ROM from the single IDE channel on the board but will probably switch to SATA HDD later. The only challenge was the front panel power switch, pwr led and HDD led, but it's not rocket science. I just pulled the stock wiring harness and replaced it with 3 dual connectors. Anybody have questions on that just let me know. The one hangup is that for some reason I could't get USB 2.0 to work to the front connector; the first time I got error message that a non-high speed device was connected, and the 2nd time it said it didn't recognize the device at all. Could be that the little PCB or the connector itself doesn't support 2.0. Any help on that one is appreciated.


Nogleheimer