Posts by Kris7

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn  Try baking it cheers ... baking it???  Should I marinate it first?

It died 2 nights ago - little light indicating it's plugged in is on, but power button does nothing - doesn't light.  That was preceded briefly by it taking several pushes to turn in on, and sometimes the power button light would...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn  Take out one module of ram - one more shot cheers ... Done, but no difference... Once, about 7 attempts ago, the first time I selected "update DMI AND BIOS and renew DMI", it...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn  Swap out the CMOS battery and try again. cheers ... Thanks.   I did.   It did need it.   But still same issue - just shuts off when it gets to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn  winphlash works just fine. Relaible resources for the 7422gx and m6811 is here: http://emachines.fizi.ca/index.php/Bios_downloads cheers ... Yeah, fizi is where I got those...

    I think I have 02 on this machine...  worth it to go to 05?   Thanks! Yes cheers ... """       Any idea how? - all my searches have not yielded an...

I had win7 32 on the desktop for a long time, but just last month went back to xp, so I think I'll pass. That was a 3.5ghz, 4gb, 465gtx, diy machine...   I think I have 02 on this machine...  worth it to go to...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn  Check the section out for this model - we have many threads regarding tweaking it (BIOS, drivers etc ...) Not sure about the slowness that you experience with the optical drive...

I've had this one for about 3 weeks now.  Fixed the screen flicker. Fixed overheating (pulled and cleaned HS and used ArcticSIlver 5).  Put in a WDScorpio Blue 250 eide drive for boot (128gb obviously).  XP SP3 Home w/o...