On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend has a 3 year old emachines system AMD Athlon 3700+ socket > 939, and apparently, as is common, the motherboard has died (power > supply, strangely enough for an emachines, is OK). > > Anyone want to sell off a motherboard (I think it's uATX) with cpu, or > without that has the socket 939, inexpensively, that I can swap in to > get 'em running again? > > Or a cheap place to pick up such a beast? Needs to support an IDE > hard drive and DVD, even though the old mbd had SATA ports, they were > unused. > > Oh, and with built in video of some sort. > > Anyway, I just thought I'd ask, as it's not worth putting even a > couple hundred in for mbd/cpu/video combo and new ram from Frys into > this 3 year old system.
Hmm, A couple of thoughts, Most emachines use proprietary form factors on the mbd, that means you need to make sure the connectors for things like drives and power supply will reach the ports and that the connectors fit the sockets on the mbd if you replace it with anything but an mbd from emachines. I also think that the power supply might be an issue with a different board, especially on the cheaper systems from emachines. They tend not to be way under gunned for everything other that the factory board. This is why I hate these damn things. They wind up being disposable PCs. I bring this up because I just got done helping someone replace an old emachine after trying to use a known good mbd from a different model emachine. It still wasn't worth the trouble, and the person decided to just replace the machine. RD -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
