eMachines T2862




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eMachines T2862 GOOD, not great.

by E. Andruszko on Nov 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 PM:

Had mine for ~3yrs now. Updgraded to XP Pro, MS Office 2007 (w/MS Access), Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Limewire (for son's music downloads), Norton Antivirus, Norton Partition Magic, all of which tax resources heavily, and it slowed a bit, no surprise, more RAM needed. Only 1 problem; needed to add a diskette drive so I bought a combo diskette/SD/CF/USB add-on. On installation discovered there aren't enough parallel connectors on the motherboard to accommodate anything beyond the CD-drive it originally came with. Well,!@#$%, what good is that? I was trying to keep it simple.

But, otherwise it hasn't given us any problems. Fingers crossed after reading about others' power supply problems.

Well, this one never troubled me

by Mark on Mar 10th, 2008 at 11:44 AM:

In exception of the DVD drive everything else works fine and I had it since

Early 2005, the DVD drive went out right away, and I didn't care I bought a Sony burner in exchange.

I very happy with the product, besides that drive problem I can't think of anything else regarding hardware.

2 years and poof

by Dan on Feb 21st, 2008 at 4:04 PM:

A friend of mine has the same eMachine with the same problem. I replaced the power supply, checked the power switch, memory, CPU. The thing still doesn't power up. So it looks like the motherboard is toast. What a POS. I guess you get what you pay for.

Doesn't last long

by Mason on Feb 11th, 2008 at 12:14 PM:

I have this exact model and the power supply and motherboard are both shot. This seems to be a common problem for Emachines. Apparently the cheap power supply they utilize for this unit does not protect the motherboard or any other components. Stay away from it! Unless it is brand new, this POS won't last for more than 2 or 3 years.

Good price, did not last long

by Jerry on Jan 15th, 2008 at 12:19 PM:

This was for the kids. Good thing. The power supply went and took the motherboard with it. When I did some research, this is a common problem. E-machines are willing to sell the repair kit for right around the price I paid to buy it. (Oh yeah, and you still lose all your data.) No thanks! I will not purchase other E-machines, or their parent company Gateway. In a nutshell, they sold me crap and want to charge an arm and a leg to repair it.

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