Dare I mention Emachine??

I know I know, I am upgrading a friends pc who refuses to let go. It's an Emaching T1140 and what I've found says that one can only put a max of 256 SDRAM PC100 or 133 in each of the two slots. Anyone think that it would work with 512 sticks? I hesitate to order and chance it so I wondered if anyone knew.

 

Dude, I dont care how stubborn this guy is but that is not worth upgrading so dont let him waste his money

 

You can still use the case and hard drives... what i did to my wife's computer when she started complaining. A cheap mobo, cpu and ram and she though it was faster than mine!

 

I always reuse drives if their good enough, Dont know about the case... but for your wife I can see why you reused it =). I have to say, there is no point in upgrading. You could probably build something like 10 times better for like 300-400 bucks lol. hit up amd.

 

Things that might still works are CDROM and HDD. Well at least if he (your friend) thinks that is sufficient.

 

Get the **** out of here.

Kidding, tell him you won't be his friend if he doesn't upgrade.

 

Older motherboards were more stubborn about memory. I know that my old K6-2 machine would refuse to function with memory that, based on the motherboard manual, should have worked. It supposedly would work with up to 768MB but never ever accepted more than 384MB, no matter what combination.

That said, the cost to upgrade that would probably be pushing close to picking up a new eMachine at Best Buy. No, really, you can get the bargain bin one for around $300. If you want a monitor with it that brings it to around $400. And that would be a C2D based Pentium dual-core chip, nice beefy (compared to that old thing) hard drive and more.

 

I had an old Gateway Pentium 2 machine that could only accept 256mb in each slot, but I put in a 512mb stick, of which 256mb was recognized and worked fine.

If he's running Windows 98 or 2000, things should be ok. If he's trying to run XP or Vista, laugh at him, then break his computer. Big favor.

 

**Hands stuball56 a baseball bat and a PB&J**
You know what needs to be done, HAVE A BALL!

 

No point in keeping an old Pentium2 machine around. All it would be good for is....well....print server? I guess you could still use it to check e-mails and surf the net but really though he would be still running win98 or ME and I don't think there is anything compatable with those ol school operating systems anymore...

 

Tell him to stop being dumb and that his entire computer is literally worth less than a single piece of modern hardware. Not worth upgrading or spending any of your time on it.