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Bought another E3PC in Shanghai today in black with serial number starting with 7Bxxxx and to my surprise the mini PCIe was present, just like the white one with serial number starting 7Axxxx. So it is not true that PCIe connector only present in those machine having 7Axxxx serial number. Anyway destroyed warranty stickers of both machines just because of curiosity.
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got two blacks yesterday from newegg with 7B on the serial and neither have the PCIe connector. go figure!
-lint
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I know it's off-topic, and I apologize, but I absolutely love the fact that people are buying multiple Eees. It's so funny and awesome to finally have a powerful gadget that really is within such a price point that this can be done. It makes me want a second one... 
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well one is for me and the other is a Christmas gift for my young brother-in-law. at 12 he will really enjoy it 
-lint
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Wow - totally - you are a super cool older bro-in-law!
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I keep the black one, I will revert the white one back to Xandros and donate for lucky draw at our annual Chinese New Year dinner in January. If the lucky guy wants WinXP, I have a lincensed Chinese WinXP lying around. Of course he gets only 512MB.
The black one looks classy and business like, and more robust. Somehow the wireless is super fast when surfing at airports or Starbucks, and camera is crispier. Just a feeling, but I have two to compare.
One word of advice, after installing Win XP, let the driver CD auto install all the drivers and utilities. Go ahead and break the warranty sticker, you need at least 1GB RAM. I have 2GB and programs work like a breeze. Use a 8GB SDHC, you will need it for MP3s, the sound quality is no less than iPods. Plunge in for a Logitech Nano mouse, the bluetooth dongle is small and unobtrusive.
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2GB of RAM in the eee?
i swear i thought I heard many times that the mobo couldnt support that... are you sure??
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@gam3r
Yes it does support 2GB, if you do a search you will find that several people have upgraded their eee's to 2GB. What you might be thinking of is that a standard unmodified eee can only support 1GB of RAM however this is due to a software limitation. This has been patched by some members on this forum, and the patch is available for download.
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Alienwhere wrote:
Wow - totally - you are a super cool older bro-in-law!
I secpond this! I want a bro-in-law like him ;-)
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I did not use any patch and E3 accepted the 2GB stick (Kingston) right away. I had a different problem - I tried to format the 8GB SDHC in my IBM X61 and it could only recognize 4GB, while the E3 recognized 8GB right away. Very weir.
The 8GB (now 4GB) is shown as a SDHC blue symbol in My Computer of X61, while in E3 it is a Removable Disk symbol.
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beise wrote:
I did not use any patch and E3 accepted the 2GB stick (Kingston) right away. I had a different problem - I tried to format the 8GB SDHC in my IBM X61 and it could only recognize 4GB, while the E3 recognized 8GB right away. Very weir.
The 8GB (now 4GB) is shown as a SDHC blue symbol in My Computer of X61, while in E3 it is a Removable Disk symbol.
The patch is for only for the default Xandros OS. If you use any other OS, the software will be completely different ("normal"), so you wouldn't need it.
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Just format ur Eee to Windows XP
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I purchased a 7B from newegg last week. *NO PCIe connector*
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2G Ram kernel patch can be found here:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1624.
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Got 2 eee pc's 7Axxx from newegg... I think they have the connector...
eee pc rocks... many people look at me when I take it out!!! 
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Newbie question. I just picked mine up on Friday and I'm yet to "break the seal" and after reading this i'm wondering if I'll still be able to upgrade to a bigger drive in the future if i don't have the PCIe Port.
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@lint
Realistically no, you wont be able to upgrade, at least not for having to spend a wad of cash.
Best bet is to buy a large SDHC card.
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Ok then. My next question would be could i just solder on the Port if I could get my hands on one?
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The pads and everything are there as far as I can see from the pics people have taken, so you should be able too..
As to if it uses another controller chip and if thats there we'd need to compare two full motherboard pictures from a pc with and without the slot.
Last edited by sambartle (2007-12-03 3:39:49 pm)
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Does anyone out there have pics of both motherboards?
Cause if this can be done I'm sure most of us who don't have the port would want to put one in.
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My 7B Pearl from Mwave does not have it.....oh well. I am going to add 2 usb ports there like others have done. One for my bluetooth internal mod, one for memory stick.
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Has anyone tried underclocking to see if better battery life can be achieved?
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I have a Black 7C, no connector. Doesn't bother me though, wasn't planning to mod it beyond putting more RAM in.
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i got mine from clove last month 7B*** no pci connectot on it
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Maybe a silly question, but what can you do with a PCIe port? :$
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