I agree. RAM and CPU's could run on different FSB's on the same mobo.

Fic Au31

Great info, I've been trying to figure out what to do with my e-machines h2865. I have the FIC AU31 mobo,but with an Athlon 2800+ Barton. I have been having memory problems, but can't tell if its the motherboard or the ram. The errors seem to occur in the part of the memory being used by the onboard video. Someone suggested that I buy the PC3200 memory instead of the PC2700 as its actually cheaper. I just wasn't convinced it would work.
From the info here it should. I also found FIC's info confusing, as it looks as though the 2800+ shouldn't fit this board, but it's working ish. This has been a very unstable system.
After a lot of research, I've been thinking of adding a bigger power source, a video card, and fans, lots of fans. I have noticed that when its out of the cabinet with the side off, it runs about 10 degrees C cooler and doesn't crash as much.
Does this sound really stupid? or should I start from scratch?
Any input appreciated.

yer i heard some mobos let ya run ram faster than cpu, but some dont, check up if yur mobo supports this

PC 3200 Ram works on FIC Au31 Mobo

Well i got some Kingston Dual PC 3200 Ram and it works. It reads as dual when I run Everest but at the 333 mz. Now I don't care about that I just wanted memory I could still use if it turned out that something on the motherboard was squirrilly (sp?). I also added a bigger power supply (from 250 W to 400 W) and a case fan. So far, so good. The Ram alone might have fixed some of my problems, we'll see.

I honestly dont recomend any full/barebones pc's. It's a hell of alot cheeper not to mension i get to CHOOSE what i want for my PC. so screw Emachines, Screw Alienware, dell and gateway and all that other crap, build ur own from somewhere like tigerdirect or places that sell good quality parts for cheep, thats what i did, I got a new Asus A8N-SLI mobo, AMD 64-3000+ processor, 1g of memory, and a NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128mb SLI video card for all just under $700. cheep and good, ez to upgrade u can get a good quality case for $80 a good psu for $60 or less, everythings pretty cheep if u dont have the stuff already! go ahead and look at my web page for old pics, and New sys specs, (note the 1gb of memory isnt installed yet) And the benchmarks arnt quite good cus i didnt restart the PC in a few weeks and ive been playin games but their still not to bad, even for only 512mb of ram.

Can anyone please help me get a copy of the TCB432L.BIN? Not looking to break any rules but I am stuck with this emachine and a semidecent video card. The update to bios would open a lot of options that aren't available now and from what I have heard allow me to overclock decently.

Its for my son, please help. Okay, that was LAME, but it really is.

*edit* did you really have to quote the whole post for no apparent reason ?

Grateful for any help.

I have an emachines t3256 and I am not by any means a financially well off person. I also have an HP Pavillion (old one). Anyway, from my research on the web I have come to the conclusion that for the emachine I need the updated bios of TCB432L.BIN . Is there any way anyone can help me get this, I saw a board where the guy left his email for anyone that wanted it but wanted to see what I found here.

Don't have money, daughter needs a new laptop, I am trying to get this emachine running for my son and I, and the wife of course. Thanks for anything you can do.

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TCB432L.BIN BIOS for emachine t3256

I thought I had already posted in reply to this thread but I guess I ended up posting it with a quote from a message in this thread. After reading the thread here and at other places I have pretty much determined that I need the TCB432L.BIN BIOS for my First International Computers (FIC) AU31 motherboard. I have a feeling most are going to reply that an upgraded graphics card would probably be a better bet, as I am simply trying to setup this system to run Oblivion type games without FPS problems. I have downloaded mods that have helped a lot and feel like I could get it there with the aformentioned TCB432L.BIN BIOS upgrade. Since it is an Nvidia based chipset could I just upgrade using one of their upgrades and possibly open up the advanced areas in BIOS and enable all the things discussed in this and other threads (Aperture Size, Memory Speed, and the gains I might see in overclocking).

Sorry if the post was too long, if anyone can be of any assistance I would be truly grateful. I hate OEM systems and their locked down settings but I am not quite ready to build a system from scratch, little broke. Just trying to get something to survive for my son until I do.

Thanks!

I got here late but.......

If this is running as dual channel, consider yourself fortunate. The PC3200 is running at the prevailing bus speed that's all. Emachines shipped my T-5026 (P/4 w 915GAG Intel Matx Mobo) With "PC3200 400Mhz RAM" listed as a feature. So, I read the directions to the mobo, and if I understood them correctly the 915GAG only supports 533Mhz FSB, and will only run the memory (in dual channel) at 333Mhz. So, I walked around scratching my head for a while, and decided that the 400Mhz thing, while true as stated (it is in there), was just an advertising ploy. The Intel BIOS is probably even more locked down than yours So I bought PC2700 to expand the memory. I think that was cheaper, or at least on sale at the time. Being an Emachines I'm sort of happy it boots everyday, and without so much as a plume of smoke. I know this isn't much help, but it does seen fun to swap Emachines "war stories", from time to time.

Hi, I know it has been a long time since this thread was posted but I was just wondering (kinda hoping) you might be able to help me get a copy of the TCB432L.BIN BIOS that I may be able to use on my emachine T3256. Sorry to bother you otherwise.