PC Hell for the past few weeks...

[rockwerks]

I can't harp on it enough, you NEED to install the chipset and drive support IMMEADIATELY after the os is installed whether it's an intel, via or sis chipset. If you install ANY OTHER software like updates first it will never work to it's full potential. If it is an intel chipset just go to intels site and download the newest intel chipset software, same with via or sis.
Intels download site for the chipsets is here:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp?iid=HPAGE+header_support_download&
And if I remember correctly the onboard e machines video is an intel video. Your support cd should have the older chipsets which will let you install them to find out which ones they are, from there you can go to intels site and download the newest ones. You will know the chipset works because after the install it will find all your usb ports out of thin air

Emachines searches at each startup for new versions of driver, etc automatically. The latest version is what caused my puter to crash. I still have not reinstalled it. and all is hunky dorry

 

[RichP]

Emachines searches at each startup for new versions of driver, etc automatically. The latest version is what caused my puter to crash. I still have not reinstalled it. and all is hunky dorry

Thats a 'feature' I can do without. Just like using the MS update site, learned long ago never to download THEIR hardware updates. I go to the hardware manufacturer and get it direct from them. Oh well, I have to wipe this box and reinstall it as mediacenter 2005.
Curious how emachines and gateway merged their stuff to support the systems that are older. Luckily only two of my customers have emachines and they are both schools w/same models so it only took one image of each school. Makes restoring a system that a student hosed a snap.

 

[rockwerks]

The only time I have problems at all is from microshaft themselves. the emachines auto update is comfigured to download but not install so I can see each update and add or delete as I see fit. Over all it has been the best most stable computer I have owned. better than the HP, compaq, and Dell.

 

[RichP]

The only time I have problems at all is from microshaft themselves. the emachines auto update is comfigured to download but not install so I can see each update and add or delete as I see fit. Over all it has been the best most stable computer I have owned. better than the HP, compaq, and Dell.

No suprise there, hp, compaq always were overengineered which is normally not a problem, just that the engineering was done by a bunch of idiots, in dells case the engineering was done by their accountants...