Reply 20 of 20, by OpenMaw
sunkindly wrote on Yesterday, 06:23:I tried doing research and reading of my own and I can't really find anything specifically eMachines related as far as dropping a 766 into a 566 even if they're both Coppermine-128 and 66fsb. What Google gave you isn't *wrong* and there's an Overclockers thread of someone running a 766MHz Celeron on a Trigem Cognac board but on an HP machine. What I'm concerned about though is that no BIOS is the same between these OEM manufacturers who like to imprint their own flavor (and limitations) into these PCs and apparently the BIOS will need to support a multipler of 11.5 for the 766MHz to work. Without BIOS update logs or something to indicate more support, I think it's a risk (but worth it if it works). Maybe some more digging will reveal some more definite answers.
I appreciate you making that effort.
From what I can gather the highest you can put into this board is the 766MHz processor, after that (800+) they become totally incompatible for reasons.
I'm eyeing this CPU here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/146626758382
It should, in theory, be drop in and go. I have a brand new CPU cooling fan to go with it as well.
liqmat wrote on Yesterday, 11:48:Don't really have anything to add other than enjoy your build and have fun with it. One of my more enjoyable restores (more of a clean-up really) was an eMachine Celeron 400 system (model 400i3) I rescued from a recycling center sitting in a dark corner. Updated the bios to the last & latest which allowed me to use up to 128GB HDDs. Finally sold it due to space constraints and travel, but hey... another one saved from the meat grinder.
Oh, that's awesome!
What got me on this wasn't a retrobuild video, but it was LGR doing a review of the emachines 566lr.
It brought back memories of staying up until 2 in the morning the first day I got my emachines 566 playing... Mortyr, the budget world war 2 time travel game. But I was there, man. It was my computer. The previous 3 machines in the house were work or family units. There was the Tandy computer, The "486" which didn't even have sound, and then the Compaq Presario, the big black beast with built in speakers on the monitor. But the eMachines was the first computer that was specifically mine, and I used it for several years until upgrading to either a gateway or a dell. I can't remember. So, this for me is going back to the year 2000, when life was simpler, and Windows 98 felt like the stuff of science fiction to my young mind.