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Well, anyone who knows a good deal about computers will quickly realize that when i say "YAY! The e-machines works again!" will look at me and most probably ready their weapons, but lok at it this way... ITS NOT ACTING LIKE AN E-MACHINES! it's acting like a new IBM or something. It has absolutely no problems whatsoever, therefore its running like a kitten. For me this means fewer dissconnects, faster load times, and now i can actually re-install the games that stopped working before! <br>The downside is that i had to use the system restore disk, thereby formating the harddrive and starting over. On the plus side, not much was lost. I did loose a lot of sound files for my music creation program, but theres not much that can be done about that now. Now i can safely network my computer and the one connected to the internet, though, and therefore connect to the internet from MY computer, not that its neccicary anymore. This computer has been a cause of great frustration for many months now, and as of 11:30 EST i no longer have to deal with its piles of vile poo that it spat out of its curved facade daily. so please don't mind while i do a kermit the frog styled "yay"<br>YYYYYAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!

I'm not a tech nazi that'll attack you for having an E-Machines. I know people are on a budget (heck, I have a 1998 Compaq, and Compaq owners'll testify that they love to crash. I've been well aquainted with the blue screen of death). I am tech-savvy enough, though, that when I hear "YAY! The e-machines works again!" I check to make sure I didn't eat one of Alistair's 'special' brownies.

FoxChild has just told me (via Yahoo IM on a cellphone) that his computer has just "bit the big one" again. He was booted offline at least four times (at least once before I was talking to him, two times he booted and came back, and one fell completely offline) since he got it running, so apparently it still has a lot of issues.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin-FoxChild via Yahoo Mobile+--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (FoxChild via Yahoo Mobile)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Never ever buy an e-machines. And never assume that they have been fixed.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Don't worry, FoxChild, we're rooting for ya.

What's an E-machine?

E-machines are bargain computers. They're about $300 (last I saw), and let's just say you get what you pay for. Good luck FoxChild, with getting the computer to not blow up. Or maybe if you blow it up you can get a new one.

In this thread I completely agree with BSP

i thought e-machines had made a comback, we have three from '98 that were awesome, but we got new ones since they had only 2 gigs of harddrive from the outdated windows 98.

E-machines, blech. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br>We're here for you, FoxChild.

I think the cell phone would make a more reliable and powerful computer than the E-machines.

So it's a really cheap computer?<br>And has a fancy name too?

Since I'm a computer technician who makes house calls to backwoods rednecks, I get to deal with cheapo computers all the time. I got to replace a motherboard in one after it fried, the cooling fans were stuffed full of feathers, since their computer desk was in the chicken coop. There should have to be some sort of license or test to be able to buy a computer.

What's a chicken doing on a computer?

Wow. That wins for the strangest computer story I've ever heard. I'm surprised these backwoods rednecks have the mental capacity to dial their phones for help.<br><br>Although I do have a funny tech support story I heard once. A woman called up tech support at Apple. She said "my computer's broken. I was using the word processor and the screen just went black." The tech support replied "check the wires." Woman: "I can't. It's too dark behind the desk." Tech: "Well, turn on a light." Woman: "I can't. The power went out a few minutes ago." Tech: "Do you still have the original boxes and receipts?" Woman: "Yes. Is it that bad?" Tech: "Yes. Return it to the store and tell them you're too stupid to own a comupter."<br><br>This conversation (or something close to that effect) actually did happen. Needless to say, the tech was fired. Still funny, though.

The scary part is that they didn't own a phone, either. The family needing the repair job called up a friend of mine on his CB radio, sho then called me and relayed the message. I get a lot of those.

<!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> The scary part is that they didn't own a phone, either. The family needing the repair job called up a friend of mine on his CB radio, sho then called me and relayed the message. I get a lot of those. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:ph34r:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /ph34r.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ph34r.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:o--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> <br>I'm ashamed to call myself a human knowing that I share a species with people like that. I think I'll go back to being a wolf.