trying to restore Ei System PC

Donnie

Instructions here.

Donnie

Once complete, you will need at the least 512MB RAM of PC2100 for £14.50 Will give the machine new life. Will respond quicker and will be more capable all round.
Get 1 GB RAM if you're feeling flush. £30.55.

But don't purchase yet, as you may need 512MB PC3200. 1GB here.

What you need to do is to check what you currently have installed. To do this you have to install and run CPU-Z.

Under SPD or Memory it will tell you whether you currently have PC2100 or PC3200.

Once you know you can order accordingly.

john-306

The XP recovery that came with my EI system was in fact 3 CD discs, labeled on the discs as 1/3, 2/3, 3/3.....


I'm not 100% but don't think a EI Windows XP recovery disc would fit on 1 CD:(

Although I could be wrong

stonecoldsteveaustin

John-306 it Doesn't say 1/3 or 2/3 etc on it!!
Right I have installed the XP disk you sent me Donnie with no problems thanks for that, is that Bytestor thing quite easy to put in?

Donnie

stonecoldsteveaustin wrote: »

John-306 it Doesn't say 1/3 or 2/3 etc on it!!
Right I have installed the XP disk you sent me Donnie with no problems thanks for that, is that Bytestor thing quite easy to put in?

Very. Fitting RAM to PC.

Donnie

The machine is held back by the pitiful amount of RAM.

Other than that the specification is actually quite good for such an old machine. Get the extra RAM suggested in post #73. Take note that I've edited the post in order to change the specification of the modules. So if you have already ordered, cancel and re-order only if necessary, after you have run CPU-Z.

CPU Intel® Pentium® 4 2.8 GHz
Memory 256 MB DDR RAM - PC3200
Motherboard MS 6714 ver 1.0
Hard Drive 80 GB Seagate ST380012A
CD / DVD Drive Sony® DW-U18A DVDRW
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Sound Card Realtek AC'97 audio
Modem Creatix V.9x DSP Data Fax Modem
Network Card Realtek 8139 / 810x (Onboard)
Video / Graphics Card Intel 845G integrated graphics
Disassembly Case information
Ports Ei System 5028 ports information
Mouse Standard PS/2 mouse
Keyboard Standard PS/2 Keyboard

stonecoldsteveaustin

Will do thanks