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.
Here's the thing. I still don't have everything else up and running smoothly. Both before and after this restore, I have had frequent Firefox crashes although I have had similar problems at the library on multiple machines so I don't know if that is machine specific. These Firefox crashes occur even when I have all add-ons disabled. (I have also had IE crashes.) If everything else was working properly I would spend my time getting Firefox right. But if I can't keep the computer from crashing, nothing else matters.
I can't afford to have an unreliable machine but I also can't spend the next weeks getting this straightened out. Is this a lost cause?
Bruce
--- On Sat, 4/30/11, adj <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: adj <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Repeated crashes, is this a lost cause?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011, 8:55 AM
Bruce,
I am unclear:
1) Did your replace your motherboard and then installed your
E-machines system restore disk? 2) Please explain why it did not run
particularly before the motherboard replacement?
3) and Why did you replace the motherboard?
Toni Jones
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Bruce Lund <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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?
>
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