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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.
Disabling On-Board
Video
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". |