Hello All!
My fiance got a new eMachine W3503 for a birthday gift. 4 things are wrong with it.
1. It's built w/ 512 mb of ram, confirmed it in the bios., XP is reporting 376 mb ram. Maybe onboard video has 136 mb of it. Doubt it.
2. When more then 1 window is open I can't go back and forth between windows with the mouse only the keyboard. The taskbar doesn't allow her to switch or pop up to allow her to swtich over to other open windows.
3. She is only able to switch via alt-tab, to close a window she has to right click on the taskbar.
4. When she attempt to click on a window / close every window is place in the background and is greyed out.
What I have tried is to put is "Lauch explorer in a seperate process, and "Put 16 bit apps to a seperate process"
Any ideas would be welcomed,
I can't help you with any of the others, but you are right on the first one and the integrated video card. I've got a similar model and noticed the lack of ram. I dropped in an extra 512mb and everything seems to run smoother.
I've taken your advise and ordered another DDR 400 512 mb or ram for her machine along with a WinTV-PVR-500 MCE-Kit with NTSC TV Tuner and Media Center Remote Control. I'll install GB-PVR to record Ghost Hunters, BSG for later retreival off of my server.
Thanks for the help,
In the bios you can usually configure the amount of ram allocated to the onboard video.(or the computers I've used you could)
I'm not sure what your describing though. Is windows just not responding at all?
In the bios you can usually configure the amount of ram allocated to the onboard video.(or the computers I've used you could)
I'm not sure what your describing though. Is windows just not responding at all?
I've looked in the BIOS for it and it's not even a setting to change it.
The machine just doesn't act like your normal windows desktop. It responses but not the way you would expect it to. It's very weird. I've never seen this kind of behavior in all of the years I've worked with computers.
Was the computer like this right when you opened it up?
First I would probably test the ram with memtest. Sure the computer is new but maybe something is wrong. Then I would try restoring to factory defaults with whatever recovery media the pc came with. If that doesn't work I guess you could call their tech support since the computer is obviously still under warranty.
Was the computer like this right when you opened it up?
First I would probably test the ram with memtest. Sure the computer is new but maybe something is wrong. Then I would try restoring to factory defaults with whatever recovery media the pc came with. If that doesn't work I guess you could call their tech support since the computer is obviously still under warranty.
Yep the machine was that way from the start.
I have memtest and will run it.
I rebuilt the machine with XP Pro and it still behaves the same.
2 Year Warranty.
Sounds to me like you just got a dud. ![:D]()
Let me know it indeed memtest does find any errors. Personally I would just get it repaired by the manufacturer.