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astrotrain1000   11-26-2007 at 09:21:04 AM

I bought an emachine pc and it came with an ECS 945ct-m3, can I flash it with the bios from the ECS website and do some overclocking? This is my first experience with an ECS board, do their bios allow for overclocking and if so how well? I'll mainly be using this for a media server as it has a lower power celeron420 and onboard video. I just want to overclock it for fun to see what i can do since it is conroe based.

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apache_lives   11-26-2007 at 09:57:30 AM
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astrotrain1000 wrote :

I bought an emachine pc and it came with an ECS 945ct-m3, can I flash it with the bios from the ECS website and do some overclocking? This is my first experience with an ECS board, do their bios allow for overclocking and if so how well? I'll mainly be using this for a media server as it has a lower power celeron420 and onboard video. I just want to overclock it for fun to see what i can do since it is conroe based.



ECS = S#!+, but it will have some sort of overclocking options, dont expect much tho.

To flash the bios? Chances are it will work, chances are it wont, but you should be lucky.

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g-paw   11-27-2007 at 01:01:13 AM
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I'd only flash emachine BIOS because it's not unusual for mfg to modify the boards.

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sepayne21   12-27-2007 at 08:51:11 PM
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did you ever flash your bios. we bought my mom an emachines for christmas this year and it has an ecs motherboard in it (945GCT-M3). I was wondering if you had any luck in flashing your bios. It should work, and I would have tried it already if the computer was mine, but it's my mom's. She's running vista in it with a 1.6GHz celeron. it's a conroe-L core, so if I could just have some overclocking options in the BIOS, it wouldn't take much to bump up that 200mhz fsb up to... say 300 for a nice 800 mhz overclock.

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Bronze Motherboards badge o1die   12-27-2007 at 08:54:42 PM
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I don't recommend you flash any ecs board; not worth the hassle of a possible bad flash. Some ecs boards use winflash; a little tricky making it work the first time. Not worth the risk/reward factor.

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rcracingzone   01-04-2008 at 07:58:31 PM
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I have tried to flash using ECS Bios flash but, it stated unable to flash onboard bios. I'm contacting ECS right now.

You can upgrade the CPU as long it is using LGA775 socket and 800mhz FSB

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zenmaster   01-04-2008 at 08:09:13 PM
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Did you buy it locally from a Shop Like Best Buy Circuit City?
If you can return it there for a replacement, give it a shot :>>

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rcracingzone   01-05-2008 at 12:15:12 AM
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ECS Support(USA) Posted : GMT 2008/01/04 22:47:55
Please DO NOT flash the BIOS on your motherboard which is inside the eMachine. They have special BIOS for eMachine system.

Unfortunately, we don't have any information related to your motherboard. Please contact eMachine for more support.

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nukemaster   01-05-2008 at 01:02:09 AM
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Most times, just like the Asus boards used in HP's. The boards have been modified for there new purpose. So a flash is unlikely to work....

 

@ apache_lives - My K7S5A was the most trouble free board i ever owned(Never had a bios flash fix one thing and break another like i have seen with other boards costing 4-5 times more).....It still runs today....


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