On 07/29/2016 02:52 AM, Peter wrote:
On 29/07/16 18:10, John R Pierce wrote:
also, try and scrounge another DDR2 SODIMM for that thing, according to my google search, it supports up to 2 x 4GB == 8GB, and you said you only have the stock 2GB.
They are dirt cheap on ebay, from Hong Kong with free shipping. I would go all the way and max it out.
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when buying memory or hdd, i check both ebay and amazon for price, warranty and shipping.
last purchases i made were all from amazon.
1 TB sata hdd, 2 ddr 1x2 GB memory and a power supply for an emachine.
1 TB sata hdd, 2 ddr 1x2 GB memory for tower box.
turned out emachine had more than a power supply, so 2nd hdd and power supply went into tower box.
tower box is oem mainboard for ide drives, bought an ide2sata adapter for it. now it has 2 1 TB sata drives, 1 250 GB ide and 1 ide cd/dvd r/w drive, 1 usb cd/dvd r/w usb drive, 1 hd 3.5 floppy, 1 dc2120 tape drive on floppy controller, 1 dc2120 / travan on scsi controller.
no front cover so all drive will fit and have access.
i tricked it with a 3 position momentary-center-momentary switch for reset | off | on.
i took a much needed nap while pulling 7 x86_64 iso. it was not until i started to run checksum to verify that i saw i pulled the 'everything' iso file. now have the 4.0 GB dvd iso file.
rebooting to install correct iso.
back later. again.