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MrMojoZ:

--- Quote from: SithMaster on September 14, 2007, 03:30:39 pm ---Id avoid emachines.  My power supply overheated one day and ruined my motherboard.

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This man speaks the truth. I have seen seen at least two emachines with blown powersupply+motherboards every week for the last few years. It is absolutely amazing how often these things fail. Almost always Bestec powersupplies that do it too, so be forewarned.
Dervacumen:
Yeah, I've had two relatives' emachines' power supplies fail.
If you have a little patience, you can usually save a lot of money getting a prebuilt system.  Just not an emachines.  IMO.
miles2912:
Some of those dells on special are hard to beat.  Especially when you toss in a 3 year warranty.  My advice is see if you can RMA the dead drive and put it in the new pc.  Sell the case - mobo - memory and cpu and you should be just fine.
Dizzle:
Wow!  Thanks for all the excellent suggestions!  I think I will stay away from emachines and check out the other sources mentioned above.  Sounds like finding an XP machine shouldn't be that hard either.

Thanks!!   :notworthy:
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Dizzle on September 14, 2007, 07:17:03 pm ---Wow!  Thanks for all the excellent suggestions!  I think I will stay away from emachines and check out the other sources mentioned above.  Sounds like finding an XP machine shouldn't be that hard either.

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Finding an XP machine pre-configured from Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. will be next to impossible.  Finding one online will not be that bad.

OTOH, if you have or obtain the proper XP version, you can always buy pre-configured and wipe the drive and load XP to the machine.

Also, I forgot to mention - the pre-configured (E-machines, Dell, HP, Gateway) machines always come with tons of useless junk programs added that you need to remove, where the online machines usually don't.

Good advice on returning the HD and getting a replacement - I have done this before as well.
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