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Originally Posted by nffc
That is the right model. Any differences internally would have been production-line / BoM differences but the spec should be equivalent.
UDMA mode 2 is evidently the maximum that combination, in that state, can support. AFAIK, there's no way of changing it in XP.
Recover the PC - yeah... using the disks supplied (with a Ghost image) not an XP disk. With an emachines it probably won't make much difference.
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I still find it strange that it is not listed under the eTower range, as it is clearly labelled (once on the front & twice on the back) as an eTower 310. Naturally, when I wanted to find out more about it on the internet, this is what I searched for, & when it came up with no hits, I was a bit suprised!
Perhaps I have a unique machine sitting in front of me. Perhaps it's a "one-off"
. Having said that, my sister did tell me that it was a display model they bought, as they didn't have any others in stock.
It also seems strange to use a chipset with UDMA4 capabilities, but limit it to UDMA2. Having said that, I wonder how much difference in transfer speed this will actually make in practice. I just wanted to get the most out of it before she passes it on. I have doubled the memory from 128M to 256M & it's amazing how much difference that has made.
I should have realised what you meant by "recover", as I have got the recovery disc here, but it is Windows ME based, so I won't be using it.