tall_tiger said:When I bought my T2200, it was not just another "cheap" model.
I bought only the tower at CompUSA and the price was about $700 in the spring of 2003. It has a 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon Processor and it came with 512 MB of DDR Memory and a 100GB WD Hard drive. I really never had any trouble with it until the board died.
Have you found any replacement boards with a 462 pin Socket A made by ECS recently? I was hoping to find one so I could use my restore CD's or I will lose my XP O/S also. I was wondering if any boards could still be used with those restore discs without having to go back to EMachines to buy one.
Thanls for any response you can provide.
Tedster said:Wal-mart? Your problems started when you entered the door.
I don't shop at Walmart for several reasons.
#1. They support 10% of Communist China's economy and undercut Amercian businesses with ruthless practices.
#2. Most of their stuff is cheap for a reason- it's crap.
#3. I hate shopping with crowds and dealing with ***** customer service personnel. I was carded one time for buying an R-rated movie there. I'm 37 years old and look my age.
#4 Anything electronic there is guaranteed to break within 24 hours of bringing it home.
That and they figure the computer will only be used for internet and email so why spend alot. Then 14 yr old Jonny decides to start playing WoW and needs a new video card to play it. KABOOM!twite said:People that know very little about Pc's only know that "the higher the GHz".."the better the computer".
Piracy is not TOLERATED on Techspot. This is a warning and you risk your account being banned.cubecompMTDX said:you can probably download a copy of windows, burn it to a cd, install it using the code stamped on the back of the computer and call microsoft to activate it. If you don't want to lose programs/files, use the repair feature.
if you are PAYING for a license, then it's legal, too often people download stuff and don't pay for it. You have to very clear when stating this online. It can be very easily interpreted as condoning piracy. Personally I have never heard of windows being legally downloaded.cubecompMTDX said:you can actually download it from microsoft. It's not piracy when you use the stamped code on the back of the computer to repair and reactivate windows. My friend Tim told me this information and he has worked with microsoft computers for 14+ years. Besides, anytime you buy a copy of windows, you're not really buying their software that comes in the pack, you're actually buying a license to install their software on your computer. That's why you can either buy the windows os with the cd or license only. Now if you use a key on 2 or more different computers and an activation crack, then it's pirated.