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ok, long story short emachines blow.

A co-worker asked me if I could swap a motherboard and power supply for him. He had all the parts and his system restore cds. I asked him if there was anything important on the drive that was not allready backed up he said yes. slapped the drive in another machine to burn the files and it wouldn't boot. so I slaved it and got the files that way. so far so good, didnt even cross my mind to wander why it did not boot.

swaped the hardware, hoked it all back up and then tried to boot. Got to the XP logo and screen flickerd and boot screen is back... watched it for a second and it did it again.

no big I just redo the install, still didnt work.

Little time on google I find that the lovely folks at emachine hard codes the XP install to the mobo bios. so if your mobo dies so does your XP.

so heads up if you or a relative has a emachine. My co-worker was rather bumbed when I told him that he was going to have to buy an xp disk.

I can just see eMachines and Microsoft:

Microsoft: Hey little buddy if you make it so your customers have to buy a new copy of XP everytime we will give you XP for a discount so you can sell your crappy machines for even cheaper and knock out the independant system builders!

eMachines: Thats just wrong on so many levels but we are cheap so OK!

HONkUS wrote: eMachines: Thats just wrong on so many levels but we are cheap so OK!

hahaha exactly. I will NEVER buy emachines.

its business my friends. Guarenteed Emachines gets a kick back from MS for that. That is why there is a custom building industry and why not everyone owns a dell etc

My friend recently bought an emachines laptop, n14 i think, and he found that the included mediacentre was really bloated and slow, so he put a new install of XP Pro on it only to find that emachines has no drivers for this thing on their website!

Fortunately there was a similar problem over at [h]forums and they had listed all the hardware and where to find most of the drivers, a quick google search turned up the rest. But the customer support and after service is disgusting, he tried a live chat with someone and they didnt respond!

Dan

yea i got an Emachine my self to mess around with had the same problem but i got a few extra XP disk so it wasnt much trouble for me

heh... good thing. One of my friends parents eMachines died. I diagnosed it to be a dead motherboard. They said screw replacing the motherboard and bought a new system... but they only did that because the computer was about 5 years old. Thankfully I didn't have to run into this problem!