Upgrading eMachines T2682

Spike how can i do a drive diagnostic check? Is it probably on my computer? Is there something to download? Thanx for replying

Is anyone gonna reply? I'm waiting for ages and I am going to order the upgrade on March 6, 2006.(This is california time). So i need any pointers on anything. For all who are reading this forum: If you are upgrading your emachines T2682, You have 1 PCI slots, and 1 spot to upgrade ram.


Spike,
How do I run a drive diagnostic check? I could use the help. Otherwise my computer is: :dead:

Spike, Paulla, vnf4ultra, anyone else??? SOMEONE PLEASE RESPOND!!!!!!!!!

What brand is your hd? Anyway, I think you can run seagate's seatools on any brand hd, just you have to use Internet Explorer if you use the web testing. Also, the speedfan program can check a drives smart status.
Everest home editon can do this as well.
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
http://www.lavalys.com.hk/products/everesthome.asp

Best wishes.
vnf4ultra

Thax for replying to my forum and i do apologize for asking many questions, but I'm very busy and dont have time always to read the forums. I opened my computer and I just learned where to put my stuff thanx to u guys and emachines, and I have 2 PCI slots open and an upgrade slot for RAM. Thanx very much. I opened my computer, and I couldn't tell the brand of HD, but I have a suscpision that might have to do with that: The cable connecting from the HD to mobo read "MASTER" is this a type of harddrive? Please hurry with replying, I'm getting my upgrade in like a week or so.


Thanx for reply
sw123

P.S. I learned that there are 2 types of RAM: DIMM and SO-DIMM. Which one will work in my system? My upgrade wont work without reply soon!

Thanx

So-dimm's are for laptops, dimms are typically for pc desktops, so you want a dimm stick of ram.

Master isn't a brand, it's the drive setting. Drives can be master or slave depending on how many drives you have and the position of the drives on the cable.

Did any of the tools I linked to help you test the drive or get a drive mfg. id?

I didnt use any tools yet, but I will tonight...

Exactly what do you have then as if the XP installation is fixed on the HD (recovery partition) you're going to find you have no OS when you replace the old HD? If this is the case you'll need to purchase a copy of XP which isn't such a bad thing as you can (with obvious limitations) move this around independant of the machine. There'll be no point adding the new drive as a secondary as if there are problems with your primary HD (the one with Windows on) they won't go away. Of couse it might not be your HD but it does seem likely, try running a scandisk and see what (if any) errors it finds.

When Windows lags, I scan with scandisk, and it always finds no errors. I dont understand...

Hello, and good news!


To all who are helping me out, I got SIW, and its working great.
I found my brand of harddrive:

Make: Western Digital
Model:WDC WD800EB-11DJF0

Any tools to check for errors on my harddrive? I hope this helped you guys solve my problems!

Hey guys:

I'm upgrading tonight, so I wont need anymore help. Thank you all for your help!!

Never Mind To I Didnt Need Any Help Anymore!!!

HI


I ordered my upgrade and the said that there was an incompatible issue with my card and my MOBO. They reccommended another card, which they said should work, and I DONT KNOW virtually anything about the card. The cars is a PNy 5500FX PCI 128MB DDR

Is it justt as good as the ATI card or better?? Please respond!!

It's one of the better pci cards, here's a good place to buy it, it likely will be cheaper to buy online vs. buying from emachines(is that who you're ordering from?).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133134

OK thanks vnf4ultra


I ordered the ctad, will I be able to play battlefront II, lego star wars, etc.? Any pixel shader, opneGL or direct x capability? Thank you VERY MUCH. They said it has compatiblilty issues, so I didnt want to take the chance and bother you guys again.

Thanks
sw123

It should work, and run the games ok. They don't seem to be extremely demanding games.

OK Thanks

sorry for being a bit paranoid, but I thank you for your help! I dont think i will need much more help, but I thank you anyway. I'm also getting an external sound card(usb plug n play), so what its not really good, but you know, its better than my old sound card! (even has mic support!)


Thanks for everyone who helped me so greatly!

vnf4ultra, paulla, spike!

My old sound card's mic port was fried (kaput!)

Again thanks for all your help!

If you haven't done so already replace the powersupply. The E-machines T-2xxx series is notorious for bad power supplies that eventually short out and fry the motherboard, especially when you tax them with upgrades.

god dang it

I cant buy a psu! I cant afford it!I have no job! I cant get psu. So i cant put a new one in! Sorry, but thanks for reply

The card im ordering requires 250w PSU and i got 300w psu. I should be fine. plus i bought my computer from my uncle, and he upgraded the psu. (from 250w to 300w) as vnf4ultra said, it sho0uld ru0n fine, and emachines didnt say anyting about needing a new psu and they are very trustworthy to me. (seriously, they are) :haha: