Successfully update t6212 bios to msi 3.8 bios

Hello all, not sure if this is that important but I thought I would just share this incase someone else here had the same problem with there pc. Problem was the bios in this emachine T6212 had no option for changing the htt and it was on 1600 instead of 2000 with no hope of changing it. I read on another forum of someone saying they sucessfully flashed the msi bios over the emachine bios So i gave it a try and it worked. What I did first was download the new emachine bios 4.0 from there site and burned it to a cd, just incase the msi flash failed, as a back up. I first upgraded to the 4.0 to test it to make sure I did it right and then I flashed it to the new msi bios using the msi live update to do the flashing. And so far so good the htt is now at 2000 and I have more options in bios hopefully this little bit of imformation might help someone. I'm trying to give back as best I can because you all at this site have helped me out so much with your knowledge and expertise. Thank you all, have a safe and wonderful xmas and new years!
respectfully,
Stuart

good looking out Tiresmoke I have emachines new bios 4.0 on disk still and I was able to flash it back to it(4.0) Just incase I ever need to rma it. I think my warrenty is almost up anyways. I wanted to ask you something if you dont mind, I remember reading before about the memory setting being at 2t and that it should be at 1t. I read the thread and it said the fix is only for CG revision cores, how do I know if mind is one? On CPUZ it show revision as "DH8-D0" its a winchesster socket 939 and on sisoft sandra for the memory bandwith benchmark its shows the "Int Buff'd iSEE2 as 4216 MB/s and the Float Buff'd iSEE2 as 4219 MB/s. Is that score ok? Once again thanks for all the help

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