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Originally Posted by XFS03
My sister has just bought a new pc & has left her old one with me to see if it's worth upgrading. Trouble is, according to the WWW it doesn't exist!
It's an eMachines eTower 310, bought from PC World. It has a Trigem Cognac Rev. G mobo. According to the chipset specs. (Intel FW82801AA), it should support ATA/66 transfer rates (equivalent to udma4 I believe) & the Seagate HD specs. say it is capable of udma5.
When I run Sisoft Sandra, however, it tells me that it is only transfering at udma2. I have replaced the original (40 way) IDE cable with an 80 way cable & checked the bios, which is set to udma4.
Any ideas as to how to get the max transfer rate?
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Emachines 310
Checked the controllers in Device Manager? Tried to recover the PC?
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Originally Posted by basa
Now I would NEVER buy bits, let alone a PC from PC World and would never buy a ready assembled PC from say Dell, Packard Bell or god forbid those 'emachines' things (are they still going ??).
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Very much so, they have been bought by Gateway after Trigem's demise, and are being sold in Staples / Comet as well as sometimes in DSG stores - that said, DSG seem to be concentrating more on own brand (Advent/Patriot/EiSystems) and external exclusives (Compaq/PB) than piles of junk like eMachines with time-bomb PSUs!
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
My one and only experience of eMachines was when a friend bought one abroad, didn't realise it had a 110V power supply, didn't tell me where she got it from, borrowed a kettle lead type power lead from me and plugged it in.
Luckily the internal fuse went before it caught fire.
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You were lucky the PSU didn't blow, they do that for no reason so doubling the voltage should have fried teh whole PC
