spamtrap1888 wrote:

On May 13, 9:37 am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
Bob Villa wrote:

On May 12, 6:26 pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

My eMachines W3118 came with a restoration DVD for the factory
installed XP home, which includes all the drivers.

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Good God, man! An expert electronic tech that admits he has an
eMachine w/XP home...WTF!

I have over 100 computers at home. I refurbish them and give them
away for free. I used one eMachines Windows ME computer for ten years,
and the original install of ME is still in use in another, later model?
I needed ME to use an older flat bed scanner so I stuck the drive into a
T1220 that was shipped with XP..

You do know that a lot of HP computers used the same motherboard,
power supply and drives as eMachines that sold for half the price?


eMachines that we evaluated could not withstand shock and vibration,
so maybe their chief weaknesses were mechanical.


They were better built than most computers of their time. The worst
were the custom built junk by small computer stores. The frame in the
E-machines case was spot welded while the others had a couple screws or
pop rivets, and shoved tabs into slots for a very flimsy case. Some
were so weak that you could twist the chassis an inch out of line.

Vibration failures were often had drive related. That's why we used
M-Disk drives in our products. They were first generation solid state
hard drives.


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid™ on it, because it's
Teflon coated.