Re: eMachines OEM XP woes - time to buy $tandard?
- From: "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*o*m>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 09:56:03 -0700
"Duncan905" <studiomuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Original Poster, checkin in. Yikes, didn't mean to host an OS war.
> Thanks for offering that option, but I'd like to focus on remaining
> in the WinXP platform for now.
>
> I was brief in my original post, so here's more info:
>
> Hardware capability wise it's still more than adequate for my needs.
> I'm not looking to get a new system, although adding firewire &
> DigiDesign's MBox is in the future, once the box is stable.
>
> The "Restore" CDs are from eMachines & use Northon Ghost. No
> plucking a file or driver off them. The Repair Console CD does give
> drive access when the "corrupt/missing Registry files" error happens.
>
>
> I couldn't format the drive because of massive amounts of home
> recorded & concert music that can't be replaced. My first
> solution was to buy a fresh HD & ghost installed XP onto it.
> That was fine for a time, and it's possible the problems may have
> been reintroduced by using my external Soundblaster Extigy USB.
> (some XP compatibility warnings) It was, however, stable for about 6
> months this way.
>
> When the "Registry files" issue hit again a few months back I had
> success using the Repair Console to get an earlier system state, but
> after going through the tedium of re-installing some apps it crashed
> again. I got it running, but I left the Extigy unplugged & the
> nVidia drivers aren't functioning. They are present & I've
> updated them, they display in the Hardware manager but do not appear
> in the Sound Devices area of the control panel.
>
> Fixing my sound drivers is secondary to my expectation that the
> Registry will just corrupt again.
>
> I have Norton System Works 04, performed a scan out of the box &
> kept protection current. I use ZoneAlarm & AdAware. Before I
> brought it home I let BestBuy do their $25 Patch/Update/Spyware clean
> service. After the ghost install I had ZoneAlarm & Norton
> running before I connected to the web.
>
> I think I'm doing the right things, but I need the crashes to end.
> If I'm ignorant of some hardware deficiency with nVidia's on-boards
> please let me know. I'll build a new system if need be. It'll feel
> better than paying $200 for an operating system I should already
> have.
>
Sorry we all got off on a tangent and were ignoring your question. My
experience with eMachines is that they are very cheaply built. I have spent
many hours trying to repair them. In the end it was easier to refund the
customer's money and give up. I no longer accept them for repair. A lot of
the parts are proprietary and only available from eMachines. They only stock
replacement parts for a limited period of time. When the supply is exhausted
the pc can't be repaired. Even if you can get the parts often it doesn't
solve the problem as the part is engineered to be cheap to manufacture not
work reliably. I know this isn't what you want to hear but in my experience
it is reality. My advice would be to save your money until you can afford to
buy a better pc. In the mean time test your ram. Get memtest86+ from
www.memtest.org Try setting the BIOS to the slowest settings. Download and
install the latest chipset, video and other drivers from emachines if
possible. It may not be, I just tried to get to their support and it came up
with errors in IE and Firefox.
Kerry
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