You really don't have an eMachines computer any more.  You have the 
case of an eMachines but all the guts are the Intel motherboard.  The 
eMachines restore disk has drivers for the old eMachines motherboard 
and not the Intel MB.  You will have to use an XP install disk and 
the drivers for the motherboard which may or may not be on the XP 
install disk.

You should contact the people who installed the motherboard and ask 
for the driver disk that comes with replacement motherboards so you 
can run it after installing XP.  There may be some place on the 
Internet that you can get the motherboard disk through a support 
group or discussion group about Intel motherboards.  There is a 
remote chance that you may be able to get the correct drivers at:
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/
which is supposed to detect which drivers your motherboard needs and 
will update them. Or if you know something about the chipset that's 
on the Motherboard, you can try downloading the drivers from:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx

Hope this helps some.

Doug


>From:    Bruce Lund <[log in to unmask]>
>
>eMachines D2880 running Windows XP home. Intel Motherboard
>  had been replaced with HP 090 CL about a year ago. Computer didn't 
> run particularly well before the mother board went out but was even 
> worse after the mother board was replaced, including system crashes 
> that did not previously occur.
>
>Just did a non-destruct reinstall of windows but the problems 
>persist, including system crashes. Before and after the restore, 
>Mozilla frequently crashes and even IE crashes. Before I waste any 
>more time trying to fix this, am I wasting my time. The system has 
>plenty of power for what I need it to be, so I am not dissatisfied 
>with its specs. But I need a stable system. Is that possible after 
>replacing the eMachines mobo with an HP one?
>
>How about if I just got an XP disk and install that instead of the 
>eMachines restore disk? Would that do the trick? I can't afford to 
>keep wasting time trying to fix a machine if it is never going to 
>work properly.
>
>About a year ago, my power supply went out and took the mobo with 
>it. So I paid somebody to replace the mobo. They replaced eMachines 
>mobo with an HP mobo. They DID NOT use eMachines restore disk. 
>Subsequently, the computer would crash on occasion which it did not 
>do previously do.
>
>A few weeks back, I had a system failure and did a non-destructive 
>restore using the eMachines restore disk. I have since been dealing 
>with more system crashes.

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