Taichan

Have you tried Partition Magic? I am sure it will resolve the problem.

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Chill

What do you think of the E Machine, which Gateway bought?

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Turk Quid Pro Quo

Emchaine makes some great laptops for there price, its why gateway bought them and pretty much closed the laptop part, there desktops are junk


partition magic wouldn't work as then if i need to reinstall i'd have nothing :P once i get the disks, i'll give it a shot

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I am not too familiar with the eMachine. I believe the concept of emachines was too make an affordable sys for everyone. The problem was the PSU that were being used. As I mentioned in a earlier post the foundation of the any PC is the PSU. If the CPU is the brain then the PSU is the heart. When HP was building sys for Walmart they were problematic at best. Prior to this HP had an excellent rep in the IT world. I thought Gateway was dumping the eMachine after a dismal 2 year sales? I see that Wallmart is selling a back to school model for $798. Personally I believe you get what you pay for.

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Chill

Have you used PM? In frankness I have not used it since ver 7 I do not believe there is much difference though. PM is an awesome tool for partitioning HDD's I made a beliver out of our Sys Admin when I showed out non destructive it was. I should not need to remind to always backup your data though.

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Chill

Turk...along with my new Dell, I also own a EMachine and I love both of them. I've owned two EMachines now, and I've never had any problems with either one of them.

Good luck!

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Joeninpo

The tyrant custom, most grave Senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down

hellooooo, i have both, and when something happens to my dell, i use my e-machine.***dell bites, when it comes to partition viruses***

Haven't heard that. E machine was doing well before gateway bought it. E Machines seem to be selling well via the Best Buy retail chain. I would hazard a guess that its probably E Machine sales that have kept gateway PC's alive the past couple years. It could be they are going to try and sell off E machine to raise capital since the company is struggling. I am now guessing a bankruptcy is looming in gateways near future. If not, it will have to pull some kind of rabbit out of its hat. They have done pretty good in selling flat panel TV's and monitors, though not well enough to really buoy the company. I'm guessing they are putting all of their hope in the coming processor/ OS technology rollover. Apple is going to debut their new operating system soon, maybe before MS gets Vista out.

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Turk Quid Pro Quo

My Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop is in need of an LCD Inverter Board (self-diagnosed). Would this be any easy find and relatively cheap fix in a local computer store? The real question is whether local folks have Dell parts readily available. Or will it be best for me to order the part and then have a local computer geek fix it.

Thanks

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JIMMY JOE

no, it wouldn't , as systems are all differnet. such as the one in my panasonic wouldn't work in my HP.


you'd have to go to Dell and order the part from them

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