Some of the eMachines utilities that depend on matching hardware and
drivers might not be very happy with the change, even with proper
drivers in place. Certain hardware features might not exist on the new
board, or there may be newer functions that the eMachines software
bundle may have trouble using or coping with. Such are the perils of
making an OEM installation deal with drastic changes to the hardware. A
retail copy of Windows is a little less susceptible, but still can
generate strange behavior when the circumstances are just wrong enough.
Graphics drivers are a big sticking point, followed closely behind by
the AMD processor driver not liking Intel CPU's and vice versa. A wipe
and restore is sometimes all that will save the computer if things are
crossed up enough. The best solution (if you can get your shop to play
ball) is to get a proper eMachines motherboard back under the hood, with
a wipe and restore resrved for if things are still tweaked from the
hardware changes back and forth. This solution keeps your factory
restore discs working as they should. Anything else could eventually
call for a fresh copy of Windows before things shake out for the better.
Best wishes. :)

P.S. An HP BIOS will only run properly on an HP motherboard. Anything
else for BIOS code will most likely turn that mainboard into an
expensive paperweight. Motherboards are that picky.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PCBUILD] What is reasonable to expect after paying to replace
mother board?
From: Bruce Lund <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, September 03, 2010 2:55 pm
To: [log in to unmask]

I suspected something like that. I was hoping that somewhere in all the 
IT merger madness that eMachines was bought out by HP and that might 
explain this anomaly. Is there any other possibility on that HP flash 
screen than they installed an HP board into my eMachines? And if that is
the case and the 
only way to save this is to install HP drivers, is that going to trip up
 other programs and hardware that were used to playing well with 
eMachines mother board?

Bruce

PS For those who did not see the earlier posts, I paid to have
motherboard replaced on my eMachines D2880 and now the computer and
programs are crashing a lot which it did not do before.


--- On Thu, 9/2/10, 
Kenneth Whyman SC <[log in to unmask]>
 wrote:

From: Kenneth Whyman SC 
<[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] What is 
reasonable to expect after paying to replace mother board?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 
Thursday, September
 2, 2010, 12:00 PM

Sorry
 to be the bearer of bad news, but here goes. That new mainboard is
interacting
 very poorly with the old drivers still installed on your
operating 
system, primarily because there are Emachines specific drivers
trying
 to interact with HP hardware and BIOS. Factory restore discs are
very
 particular to each manufacturer, as they contain only a subset of
drivers
 suited to the expected hardware configuration, rather than the
full 
driver set offered by retail copies of Windows. Your shop did a
very 
bad thing to you by not replacing your old eMachines mainboard with
an
 identical replacement 
part. Shame on them for doing that. They need
to replace this 
motherboard with the right one at their expense for the
screw-up, 
honestly. Barring the cooperation of your shop, you have a
couple 
options. First one is to wipe and restore your system using an HP
factory
 restore CD
 appropriate to that motherboard. Second is to wipe
and restore your 
machine using a retail copy of Windows and then
download missing 
drivers from HP. Third is to install drivers from HP
onto your 
existing Windows 
installation using Safe Mode 
to bypass what
does not work, though this third option is temporary 
at best, and
unworkable at worst. At this point, your eMachines 
restore disc has been
rendered useless by the hardware change. Most 
manufacturers lock their
restore discs so they only work on the right
 model of computer. Hope
things work out for you soon.





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