You most likely won't have access to the BIOS if you are on an EMachine since these prebuilt manufacturers don't want stupid consumers to screw up their computers by messing with the voltages and bus values based on the advice of Google.

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:00 GMT

#104

thats what i had seen, so am i screwed upgrading wise for that 9800 gt he found me, there's a link on the last page

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:02 GMT

#105

and u'd think there'd still be a way in just not posted or something, saw a suggestion to alternatingly tap f2 and delete, i'll just mash a couple tomarrow when ima bootin and see what happens.

JingleHell

United States11308 Posts

March 22 2011 01:03 GMT

#106

OC on the GPU can be done in the OS. EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner are the two utilities that come to mind, but I've always used precision with an actual EVGA card, so I can't guarantee cross-compatibility.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

March 22 2011 01:03 GMT

#107

I read through all your posts and no where did you mention what model your motherboard is and you didn't want to open your case to find out the wattage of your power supply. So do you actually know you can upgrade to a discrete graphics card? You need a PCI-E x16 slot for 9800GT and every other card that you listed or was recommended.

Some motherboards automatically disable the integrated graphics card when it detects a discrete graphics card in the AGP or PCI-E x16 slot. Other motherboards will require you to enter the BIOS to disable the integrated graphics card before using the discrete graphics card.

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:06 GMT

#108

and this would be a last resort without my dad ever knowing, several people have said to reset cmos disconnecting a coin like battery and moving 2 lines with three slots around to the middle one and the unused 1 for 5sec then reconnecting the battery then boot

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:12 GMT

#109

well my dad would be pissed if i opened it and wouldn't be able to touch this ever again. but its an emachin et1810 with pentium dual core 2.2ghz e2210 @ 2.2ghz running windows 7 64-bit and could i find the motherboard or anything else u need in the device manager (open now), under system devices

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:14 GMT

#110

1 guy online said eMCP73VT-PM while asking about the best processor he could upgrade 2

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:18 GMT

#111

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883114073

thats what im on now and the power supply is 250w so thats got to go and im on win 7 not vista but it does have both pcie, pcie x1, and pcie x16

pretty sure thats a good deal for 250, like i said b4, floor models are the way 2 go

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

March 22 2011 01:21 GMT

#112

If this is what you have: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5472004&CatId=4928

Than yes you can upgrade but the 250W power supply is cutting it extremely close. I'm 100% certain it won't have any 6pin PCIe power connectors so this will force you to use molex to PCIe power adapters which will require a total of four molex connectors (for the 9800GT). With the power supply only being 250W, I'm not sure if you will even have enough molex connectors for a 9800GT to work.

And that's a terrible deal for $250.

edit: So are you replacing your power supply too? It's a pain in the ass to replace a power supply in a prebuilt, just letting you know...

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:23 GMT

#113

and microcenter has 350-500watt psu's for under 20, if u have an suggestions on that, angain, on a budget

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:25 GMT

#114

shit, this is just getting more and more complicated, and i dont even know how shitty the wiring in here is, cuz my old compaq prebuilt was a fucking nightmare when i opened it up the first time.

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:27 GMT

#115

well i think it was a decent deal since it ran crysis straight out of the box, not too well(not too smooth) but still it ran it.

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:32 GMT

#116

http://computershopper.com/desktops/reviews/emachines-et1810-03

insides are better than my compaq's by far, again, nightmare straight from hell
and from what i see, rewiring it doesn't look too bad, iv got a good mind for that stuff, since ive just about rebuilt that compaq 5 times in my room just because with no help or experience

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:41 GMT

#117

and i can ask my dad if he'll talk to some of his friends, he knows some that should know, and i got a friend that knows a guy that could help since he built himself a liquid cooled super gamer for a couple grand at least (dey rich ass crack heads), and he'd know what to do and hopefully help or at least give some good tips, and if u'd help, the make skype for a reason

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 01:59 GMT

#118

and again b4 i leave, started nfs carbon withount updating or rolling back my drivers (gpu) and 1 min later, pixels diagnolly scattered (top left to bottom right,\\\\\ <---that way), and every time i restart, i have to go through the same process, or the pixels scatter, but it ONLY happens while in games, no matter what im doing other than games it hasn't happened b4

and, although i havent used it since it started happening, it has only done it in ea download manager, never in steam.

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 02:09 GMT

#119

ok, yeah it also messes up on steam, at least with cs:s

jonnyp11

United States38 Posts

March 22 2011 02:27 GMT

#120

first time that i know of this happening, but my computer just completely fucked up, this accoun basically stopped responding, but i could still go ctrl+alt+delete, and click on task manager, but it never loaded over ~10 mins

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