On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:04:22 -0700, Jeff Liebermann ǝʇoɹʍ:

e-Machines are not the best quality. The power supplies and fans are
the first to go. CDROM and floppy are next. After that, the
motherboard.

Geez you've just described about every computer out there.

2005 emachines T6216

Original power supply, Check!
Original mainboard, Check!
Original fans, Check!

LiteOn DVDRW failed year number 2. So did it's LiteOn replacement last
year.

Now have 16x16 Pioneer DVRW I bought in 2004. Still works well.

Moral of story, if you buy cheap stuff it will fail. Too bad that's
pretty much what you will find OEM-wise in this throw-away world.