mike wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I had someone bragging about how much better his HP computer was,
than the eMachines computer sitting by my bench. I opened both. They
were both shipped with the same motherboard and power supply. The same
brand of CD-ROM drive and amount of RAM. Both had a 3.5" floppy drive.
Neither were cheap crap. He paid over twice the price of the emachines
computer for the same hardware.

Hmm, I wonder when they started doing that, that's good to know! What
kind of MB's do they have?

They were made by the company that started eMachines. I haven't seen
many newer HPs. (Not ones worth fixing) They similar designs were more
common between 2000-2005. I've seen more bad power supplies in HP
computers than any other brand I've worked on. When I get time, I will
log the brands and models in the 20 or so banana boxes of bad power
supplies I've pulled from computers over the last few years.




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