hi. I have an e-machine. I am very unhappy. It hasn't worked consistantly since I got it, and I just found out that even e-machines has no idea what their motherboards are. I was told that each batch is different. Maybe the tech made that up, but I really think that when they ran out of parts at the factory they just told their underpaid workers to go scrape the sidewalk and see what they could come up with.
Any way, one question. The machine says a 533i celeron. When I go into Control pannel/System/device manager/system devices there are 2 references to an intel 82443lx/EX pentium(r) II processor. Or processor bridge. Something about a bridge on one, and I didn't write down what the other was. I guess maybe they are communication lines to the motherboard. Does this sound right to anyone ? The motherboard (& many many other parts) are unknown to the operating system. somewhere else, it refered to the processor as a pentium II AGP, and also as a pentium II AAGP.
Does this mean anything to anybody ?
e-machines said this is all fine and dandy, that celeron and pentium are exactly the same thing, but then again, they don't really know exactly what's in the computer. I guess that's why they don't really have anything in the way of driver updates.
I'm sorry this is not put clearer. I'm a beginner. I know this is probably an impossible question, but I would like to try to keep it running a little longer. I do have to send it back to e-machines for the third time, but they will probly send it right back to me AGAIN, with all of it's same problems. It forgets where it's drivers are after a while, then the floppy and modem and sometimes the CD won't work, and it is a very confused and slow little machine. It doesn't have a virus. I spent 2 months making sure. After I reboot, and sometimes reboot/reformat, it works better for a few days or a week, but it is getting worse. After reading these community pages, it sounds like good drivers are missing between the hardware?
Does anyone have any good ideas what to do besides throwing it onto the highway ? The poor thing. Anyone know a US dept or anything that handles computer rip offs ?
Any relatively safe advice would be so appreciated.
-Woofie
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by woofie on 02/09/01 02:24 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
Any way, one question. The machine says a 533i celeron. When I go into Control pannel/System/device manager/system devices there are 2 references to an intel 82443lx/EX pentium(r) II processor. Or processor bridge. Something about a bridge on one, and I didn't write down what the other was. I guess maybe they are communication lines to the motherboard. Does this sound right to anyone ? The motherboard (& many many other parts) are unknown to the operating system. somewhere else, it refered to the processor as a pentium II AGP, and also as a pentium II AAGP.
Does this mean anything to anybody ?
e-machines said this is all fine and dandy, that celeron and pentium are exactly the same thing, but then again, they don't really know exactly what's in the computer. I guess that's why they don't really have anything in the way of driver updates.
I'm sorry this is not put clearer. I'm a beginner. I know this is probably an impossible question, but I would like to try to keep it running a little longer. I do have to send it back to e-machines for the third time, but they will probly send it right back to me AGAIN, with all of it's same problems. It forgets where it's drivers are after a while, then the floppy and modem and sometimes the CD won't work, and it is a very confused and slow little machine. It doesn't have a virus. I spent 2 months making sure. After I reboot, and sometimes reboot/reformat, it works better for a few days or a week, but it is getting worse. After reading these community pages, it sounds like good drivers are missing between the hardware?
Does anyone have any good ideas what to do besides throwing it onto the highway ? The poor thing. Anyone know a US dept or anything that handles computer rip offs ?
Any relatively safe advice would be so appreciated.
-Woofie
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by woofie on 02/09/01 02:24 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
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