**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

[Amerikes]

Oops!, make that Frightcrawler...............

 

[Amerikes]

Here,

http://www.omegacorner.com/index_ati.html

 

[Ersogoth]

I Started with RH 9, then tried Mandrake 9.2, but I finally got SuSE 9 to install. To get the network to recognise the Rhine chip set you have to disable ACPI.
I have not tried the new Mandrake for Athlon yet, but that will be my next project in a few weeks.

 

[LIVAN]

M6805 CPU 800mh on battery issue

Ok, I am still having problems trying to make this laptop run full 1.8ghz when on battery. I have already DL speedswitch and turned "on battery" to max performance. BUt its still reverting to 800mhz when on DC. Can someone help me out here?

 

[MDE]

Try downloading Clockgen and set the correct multiplier there. AMD needs to fix this driver pronto. Who's up for an email campaign?

 

[EMJUNKIE]

Hey guys/gals. I'm new to the forum. I couldn't wait any more for the M6809 and I just ordered my M6805 from Best Buy.
Anyway, it looks like the 6809 is just going to be another Arima A520 K8 and not a W730 K8.
I'm probably going to dual boot and leave 32bit XP on there but I'm definitely going to run some version of 64 bit Linux(I'm not sure which one yet, but recommendations are welcome).

 

[Ersogoth]

Originally posted by: LIVAN
M6805 CPU 800mh on battery issue

Ok, I am still having problems trying to make this laptop run full 1.8ghz when on battery. I have already DL speedswitch and turned "on battery" to max performance. BUt its still reverting to 800mhz when on DC. Can someone help me out here?

I installed the AMD drivers that are located in the drivers folder over what was installed from the factory. When I am on battery power and running a CPU intensive program my clock speed is at 1.8, if I close the program then the clock speed drops down to 800. I did not need to run clockgen to up the CPU speed either.
I run Seti@Home, and am planning on trying folding@home.
Could someone else try this and see if they get the same results?

 

[Bbc84]

I have a question about the new model thats gonna be comming out.

When it comes out would it be better to just buy the current old model or is the new models speed and power just a overclocked M6805/M6807?

If it is just an overclocked version, wouldnt it be better to buy the current model and over clock it to match those speeds?

 

[MatthewF01]

yes...it probably would be a better idea/save some $$$ to do that.

but thats assuming that a model refresh is just inclusive of a higher-clocked processor and no other changes.


are any DVDRW drives turning up anywhere for these systems yet?

 

[MDE]

I just got my BB rebate check today! (the $150 one) Just a matter of time before the eMachines one comes in...

Originally posted by: Bbc84
I have a question about the new model thats gonna be comming out.

When it comes out would it be better to just buy the current old model or is the new models speed and power just a overclocked M6805/M6807?

If it is just an overclocked version, wouldnt it be better to buy the current model and over clock it to match those speeds?

It'll just be an M6807 with a 3200+ and 80GB hard drive.

 

[Bbc84]

Originally posted by: MDE
I just got my BB rebate check today! (the $150 one) Just a matter of time before the eMachines one comes in...

Originally posted by: Bbc84
I have a question about the new model thats gonna be comming out.

When it comes out would it be better to just buy the current old model or is the new models speed and power just a overclocked M6805/M6807?

If it is just an overclocked version, wouldnt it be better to buy the current model and over clock it to match those speeds?

It'll just be an M6807 with a 3200+ and 80GB hard drive.

If thats true, then how much of a difference is that 3200+ compared to the 3000+ that in the current emachine. 80GB would be nice since i have lots of media.

But what about the 9700 vid card, wasnt that part of it too?

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Bbc84

Originally posted by: MDE
I just got my BB rebate check today! (the $150 one) Just a matter of time before the eMachines one comes in...

Originally posted by: Bbc84
I have a question about the new model thats gonna be comming out.

When it comes out would it be better to just buy the current old model or is the new models speed and power just a overclocked M6805/M6807?

If it is just an overclocked version, wouldnt it be better to buy the current model and over clock it to match those speeds?

It'll just be an M6807 with a 3200+ and 80GB hard drive.

If thats true, then how much of a difference is that 3200+ compared to the 3000+ that in the current emachine. 80GB would be nice since i have lots of media.

But what about the 9700 vid card, wasnt that part of it too?

I've got mine overclocked to 3200+ speeds, and there isn't much of a difference. The 9700 rumors were just rumors, it'll be a 64MB 9600.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: MDE
I just got my BB rebate check today! (the $150 one) Just a matter of time before the eMachines one comes in...

Originally posted by: Bbc84
I have a question about the new model thats gonna be comming out.

When it comes out would it be better to just buy the current old model or is the new models speed and power just a overclocked M6805/M6807?

If it is just an overclocked version, wouldnt it be better to buy the current model and over clock it to match those speeds?

It'll just be an M6807 with a 3200+ and 80GB hard drive.

When did you mail it off?


BTW BB has the 6805 on sale again with the $150 and $100 rebates. Just picked mine up. The stores in the DVW area have 28 in their warehouse and the store in Denton had 5 instock.

 

[MDE]

I mailed the rebates off about a month\month and a half ago I think...

 

[gweilo8888]

Hi all

Recently bought the Emachines M6807, and am very pleased thus far - particularly with the low price of $1450 new from CompUSA - even if it was a two-hour drive to a store with stock. I'm having an odd problem though, in that with a default setup with all current Windows Updates loaded, I am having difficulties with the Broadcom 802.11g 54G wireless lan.

The problems are as follows:

* The Fn-F2 shortcut to enable / disable wireless LAN does nothing
* On resuming from hibernation, my wireless LAN says it has connected to my D-Link DI-713P 802.11b wireless router, but the connection does nothing. I have to manually disable / re-enable wireless before the connection will work, and if I disable / re-enable too quickly the connection is still dead, or the wireless router never shows up in available networks.

Anybody experiencing anything similar, or know of a fix? My driver version is 3.30.15.0, which is the latest I can find any info on...

 

[saechaka]

Originally posted by: LIVAN
M6805 CPU 800mh on battery issue

Ok, I am still having problems trying to make this laptop run full 1.8ghz when on battery. I have already DL speedswitch and turned "on battery" to max performance. BUt its still reverting to 800mhz when on DC. Can someone help me out here?

if you have a copy of win 2000 power now works great. the way its supposed to be. i'm using that until there is a fix with xp

 

[gweilo8888]

There *is* a fix for the clock-speed problem with XP - I'm using it and it works just fine. Takes a little finding, is all - I ended up downloading it from Acer Taiwan instead. Search for Q330512 on the web and you'll find it...

Anybody got a fix for my WLAN problem (two posts above)?

 

[EMJUNKIE]

Thanks Orion. I picked mine up on 3/26 so I guess I'm going back to Best Buy to see if they can do an exchange on paper to qualify me for the new rebate.
I noticed the new rebate is only from 3/28 to 4/3; I wonder if the 6809 will be announced or released right after that (not that I'm holding my breath=).
I was lucky enough to get the 5400rpm drive and no dead/stuck pixels.

**I noticed that Fedora Core 2 has been released by Red Hat. Hopefully I'll have a chance soon to give it a spin. Does anyone know where I can download SUSE9.0 for amd64? The SUSE servers and mirrors are painfully slow.

 

[LIVAN]

my 54 g works perfectly.; Did you enable the radio in the control panel?

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: gweilo8888
There *is* a fix for the clock-speed problem with XP - I'm using it and it works just fine. Takes a little finding, is all - I ended up downloading it from Acer Taiwan instead. Search for Q330512 on the web and you'll find it...

Direct link to download from Asus.

 

[gweilo8888]

Yes, radio is enabled and works fine *except* for the problems I mentioned. Fn-F2 doesn't do anything (should enable / disable radio) and after hibernation, the radio says it is up but won't work til I disable, leave for a few seconds, and then re-enable).

Anybody know what driver handles the Fn-F2 functionality, or is this a BIOS function?

 

[gweilo8888]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: gweilo8888
There *is* a fix for the clock-speed problem with XP - I'm using it and it works just fine. Takes a little finding, is all - I ended up downloading it from Acer Taiwan instead. Search for Q330512 on the web and you'll find it...

Direct link to download from Asus.

Whoops, my bad - said Acer, meant Asus. Good catch, thanks for sharing the link as I'd lost it and was too tired to hunt it down again.

BTW, I've joined the Anandtech Folding@Home team, folks, so we've got another M6807 on-board and cranking away. Wish their software was more stable though, it crashes when I try to go full-screen (nothing happens) and then I revert to non-full screen, and I'd prefer the software to act as a screensaver *and* a GUI tray app.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: gweilo8888

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: gweilo8888
There *is* a fix for the clock-speed problem with XP - I'm using it and it works just fine. Takes a little finding, is all - I ended up downloading it from Acer Taiwan instead. Search for Q330512 on the web and you'll find it...

Direct link to download from Asus.

Whoops, my bad - said Acer, meant Asus. Good catch, thanks for sharing the link as I'd lost it and was too tired to hunt it down again.

BTW, I've joined the Anandtech Folding@Home team, folks, so we've got another M6807 on-board and cranking away. Wish their software was more stable though, it crashes when I try to go full-screen (nothing happens) and then I revert to non-full screen, and I'd prefer the software to act as a screensaver *and* a GUI tray app.

If you want, try the command line version and run it as a service with FireDaemon. I haven't had any problems with either the GUI or CLI version. If you need more help than I can offer or want a second opinion, drop by the DC Forum and ask there.

 

[gweilo8888]

Thanks for the suggestion, might have to try it. Anybody have any ideas on my WLAN problem above?

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: EMJUNKIE
Thanks Orion. I picked mine up on 3/26 so I guess I'm going back to Best Buy to see if they can do an exchange on paper to qualify me for the new rebate.
I noticed the new rebate is only from 3/28 to 4/3; I wonder if the 6809 will be announced or released right after that (not that I'm holding my breath=).
I was lucky enough to get the 5400rpm drive and no dead/stuck pixels.

**I noticed that Fedora Core 2 has been released by Red Hat. Hopefully I'll have a chance soon to give it a spin. Does anyone know where I can download SUSE9.0 for amd64? The SUSE servers and mirrors are painfully slow.

I just did my paper return. I had already sent in the Emachines $100 rebate and the return lady said I might have problems with that one since I did a return but that I can just show them the new reciept.