I've heard tales of the Intel southbridges on those eMachines melting. To save money, they don't put a passive heatsink on there...
Emachines pities the fool who leaves their computer on all day! On 7/17/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: > > eMachines.. > > -- > Puryear IT, LLC > Identity Management, Directory Services, Systems Integration > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 * http://www.puryear-it.com > > "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices > > > Joe Fruchey wrote: > > Here's the deal: I'm working on a pro-bono mobo replacement for the > > family of someone my wife was friends with in high school. The > > pro-bono part is mainly because they're on a pretty tight budget. > > > > Anyway, the Celeron mobo in their eMachine crapped out, so I picked up > > a Sempron kit on Tiger for $75, but it never worked. Today, I > > discovered a bent CPU pin. The way it bent, it also damaged the socket > > on the mobo. Now, the socket damage seems to be mostly cosmetic. > > > > I may be in BR tomorrow. Anybody got a system I can borrow for ten > minutes? > > > > Email me off list if you can help a brothah out. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Joe > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070717/3e688fb5/attachment.html
