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Nice T3418 Upgrades!
04.27.07
My emachines T3418 came with an AMD Sempron 3400+
running at 2GHz. Well, the budget Sempron is not ideal
for gaming, and that is what I love to do on my
computer, so I looking into upgrading. First I upgraded
the RAM to 1GB. Then I upgraded my video and added a ATI
X1600PRO Silent PCI express video card and that sure
made a HUGE difference. Now, after some time of
searching, I found my next upgrade: an Athlon 64 3400
(socket 754 Venice) running at 2.4GHz. So with 400mhz
increase, and L2 cache doubled to 512K, I am very happy
with my new upgrade.
What I am not happy with is the driver from the AMD
website. I installed that and it made my computer not
boot. It would boot windows up to a certain point then
either give the blue screen of death or restart. So I
used system restore and restored to just before the
driver installed (the installer created a checkpoint
before it installed) and now it is smooth as silk. This
is an OEM processor that they don't make anymore so I am
lucky to get my hands on it for such a low price form a
friend. I wasn't sure if the emachines bios would
recognize it but everything seems to work smoothly.
InspectorExacto
PCI-E Problem Fixed
11.06.09
I searched the internet for hours on the problem of
getting PCI-E video to work on K8MC51G boards and never
found any information, figured I'd share the solution
with others.
Turns out, there is a large capacitor slightly behind
the PCI-E x16 slot on K8MC51G motherboards. It keeps
large/long video cards from seating correctly ever so
slightly. In order to get the card to seat correctly
you'll have to try and gently bend the back of the video
card behind the capacitor while pushing the card in.
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