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My freinds E machine
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Name: hotrod72465
Date: February 8, 2004 at 17:46:53 Pacific
Subject: My freinds E machineOS: win 98 seCPU/Ram: amd 1.3g 384 ddr |
Comment: He bought an E machine against my advice and now is having problems. He bought a radeon 9800 pro and cant get it to work. the E machine model # is T2260 w/256 megs of ddr ram and win XP home. How do you disable the onboard vid or can you any help would be great.
Rod
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Response Number 1
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Name: johnoh
Date: February 8, 2004 at 18:00:54 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I have no idea how to solve your problem but would like to say a word about emachines. emachines realized a few years ago that computers were migrating toward economic efficiency and started making machines that did what they were advertised to do, and no more. Like if they made cars, they would have a model called "city living" which would be great around town and is for those who only drive around town. Then someone would buy one and take it to the country and after 5 miles it would crap out and they would say "cars should not crap out in the country, man emachines is a crappy company" But you cannot blame a company for delivering on its promise and only on its promise . That is an efficient market when priced right, which is what emachines is.
You should never add anything to a Dell or an emachines product. You should buy it and be happy with it and don't expect unadvertised upgradeability to appear out of thin air.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Clyde T
Date: February 8, 2004 at 18:11:16 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)As Johnoh stated above, E-machines are exactly what they manafactured them to be. Tell your friend to sell his card or buy, build, or borrow another machine that is compatible with the card. Clyde
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Response Number 3
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Name: MOJOMAN
Date: February 8, 2004 at 20:14:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I agree with the other replies above, but if your friend really wants to use this card with the e-machine, the way to disable your on board vid card would be to go into the BIOS. If for some odd reason it is not listed in the BIOS, you should be able to disable it from Device Manager in Windows.
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Response Number 4
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Name: rob521
Date: February 8, 2004 at 20:47:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)i have had the t2245 for 3 years now and love it,have added another hard drive more memory and no problems,it may not be top of the line but it is good for everyday stuff.i did have 40gig drive go bad and they sent a new one in two days and everything to send old one back.
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Response Number 5
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Name: hotrod72465
Date: February 9, 2004 at 17:54:36 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Well I went over there today and couldnt get anything fixed I uninstalled the onboard vid and put the new card in, I get an exclamation mark in device man on the primary card the secondary says its working fine. the funny thing is the secondary is showing up as a Radeon 9800pro pci card not an AGP the primary is showing as AGP I am stuck. Oh yea and there is no way to disable the onboard vid in bios. Please help
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Response Number 6
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Name: YOYO
Date: February 9, 2004 at 19:29:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You should right click the one with the exclamation mark and click disable. That should do it. BTW, I think I read that e-machines is being bought out by Gateway. Good luck! YO
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