Turned out I needed a BIOS update, but updating that just was not possible. I guess they wanted to make the system so monkey proof that updating the BIOS just didn't work with the provided Windows APP. Another option is to update the BIOS from DOS but since the machine has no floppy drive I am not able to boot into DOS any easy way.
It seems that is pretty much the issue here, a BIOS lock down. What's funny is that you can disable the onboard audio, but there's no way to put a new audio card in! There's a place for a video card, but no way to disable the onboard video to resolve the conflict. Go figure!
I think I may have a E8300 CPU Core2Duo that is gathering dust......a self built machine with Gigabyt, Asus, Elitegroup or other mainstream motherboard would have accepted the CPU without any problems.
Mark Vergeer wrote:
Perhaps the fact that the system uses a special Touch screen - and probably proprietary bios supporting the touch screen including the built in graphics card. And if you did manage to get the extra graphics card working it probably will have not worked properly with the touch stuff....
Actually, I checked that out. The touch screen is indeed independent and not in conflict with anything else. You can even see the connector/connection for the touch screen on the motherboard near the upper right if you look at the full size photos. It seems to be purely BIOS-related.
Mark Vergeer wrote:
Sometimes you're better off building your own systems, especially when you want to upgrade.... My system also was very particular about the graphicscards I tried when I wanted to upgrade from the 8400 Nvidia PCIe graphics card. Arrghh....
Either that or just bite the aesthetics bullet and get a tower. There were a combination of factors that led me to get this particular system and I didn't think I'd mind the onboard video, but I do. I should have figured a way around my monetary restrictions at the time, but I was definitely in a time crunch as was well documented. With all that said, I actually really like this system and if there was a way to self-upgrade to a real video card, I would have near zero regrets.
As I get a chance to finish off Episode 2 this week, I'll be curious how well Premiere performs. I could still be disappointed, but I'm hoping that a majority of the issues I had were related to a dying hard drive.
Turned out I needed a BIOS update, but updating that just was not possible. I guess they wanted to make the system so monkey proof that updating the BIOS just didn't work with the provided Windows APP. Another option is to update the BIOS from DOS but since the machine has no floppy drive I am not able to boot into DOS any easy way.
It seems that is pretty much the issue here, a BIOS lock down. What's funny is that you can disable the onboard audio, but there's no way to put a new audio card in! There's a place for a video card, but no way to disable the onboard video to resolve the conflict. Go figure!
I think I may have a E8300 CPU Core2Duo that is gathering dust......a self built machine with Gigabyt, Asus, Elitegroup or other mainstream motherboard would have accepted the CPU without any problems.
Perhaps the fact that the system uses a special Touch screen - and probably proprietary bios supporting the touch screen including the built in graphics card. And if you did manage to get the extra graphics card working it probably will have not worked properly with the touch stuff....
Actually, I checked that out. The touch screen is indeed independent and not in conflict with anything else. You can even see the connector/connection for the touch screen on the motherboard near the upper right if you look at the full size photos. It seems to be purely BIOS-related.
Sometimes you're better off building your own systems, especially when you want to upgrade.... My system also was very particular about the graphicscards I tried when I wanted to upgrade from the 8400 Nvidia PCIe graphics card. Arrghh....
Either that or just bite the aesthetics bullet and get a tower. There were a combination of factors that led me to get this particular system and I didn't think I'd mind the onboard video, but I do. I should have figured a way around my monetary restrictions at the time, but I was definitely in a time crunch as was well documented. With all that said, I actually really like this system and if there was a way to self-upgrade to a real video card, I would have near zero regrets.
As I get a chance to finish off Episode 2 this week, I'll be curious how well Premiere performs. I could still be disappointed, but I'm hoping that a majority of the issues I had were related to a dying hard drive.
Books!
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.
[About Me]
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.