eMachines T1090

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Travis King

My spare eMachines T1090 takes FOREVER to start up... I only have like 2 or
3 things running in the taskbar, and I don't have much running in the
background either. It takes about 2 minutes per icon in the taskbar to
load. The hard drive is making a whiny noise, so failure might be imminent,
but it's been like that for a year now. As for the startup, it's been like
that for two years now. Any ideas?
 
I just looked at the specs for an a basic machine T0190, and am not
surprised at your problems. It's like buying a an inferior car and
wondering why it's not performing like a Porsche or even a Toyota.

Here's a review of your system from Amazon.com:

"Machines are the worst on the market. I regret having bought mine. The
computers malfunction often, and they have terrible customer service. The
DVD & CD burners work seemingly when they want to, and half your time will
be spent waiting while the computer is confused and figuring out what it's
doing. If you want speed & reliability, don't get their products. I'm a
writer, and have decided to transfer all my material to another unit before
the Big One happens and I'm forced to turn its guts into sculpture."

Don't waste any money making that system perform. When it dies replace it
with a Dell $499 "as advertised" special.
 
The eMachines was MY first personal computer that I had for myself. My
family pitched in just to get me started... (We already owned a computer,
but I never had my own) I'm 15 you know. I wanted a computer as a
Christmas gift, and it took them quite a bit just to be able to buy me the
cheapest of the line. (My spending limit for Christmas is supposed to be
only around $100, but I almost always go over) Only two months later after
getting that eMachines up and running, I learned how to build computers. I
wanted to replace it at that time just because I wanted to have a CD burner
for backing up data and I heard that external burners (especially USB 1.1)
aren't that good. So I decided to build a new one. I came up with about
$1000 myself over the summer and built me a computer. I had my new one up
and running in October. It had a 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPU. (when I
bought the processor in June, it was one of the higher-quality processors
for AMD) I bought an 80GB hard drive, a Supercase, an Asus A7V333
motherboard, a 128MB video card etc. etc. I've done lots of upgrading to it
since... it's almost a new computer all over again. Back to the
eMachines... I will build custom built PC's from here on out as they're
higher quality than any manufacturer out there in my opinion. As you might
suspect, I'm not an Intel fan... So things like Gateway or Dell and some
cheaper systems I don't prefer. (I know everybody has there own opinion)

My up-to-date computer specs just so you know...
Asus A7V333 motherboard (still)
200GB total hard disk space (80GB + 120GB) They're both 7200RPM, one's 2MB
cache and the other is 8MB, and they're both Western Digital
Athlon XP 2400+ 2.00GHz
512MB DDR PC-3000 Kingston (yes PC-3000 exists)
128MB GeForce3 Ti200 video card (still)
Aspire X-Dreamer II with 400W PSU (NOT 350W)
DVD drive
32x CD RW drive (still)
10/100 networking
(much better than the e-machines)

To your car expression: I know don't have only have a Toyota in computer
terms; I've got a Lexus. :) (at least in comparison to what I had)

(This is a little off this topic, but I just wanted to let you know the
story)
t.cruise said:
I just looked at the specs for an a basic machine T0190, and am not
surprised at your problems. It's like buying a an inferior car and
wondering why it's not performing like a Porsche or even a Toyota.

Here's a review of your system from Amazon.com:

"Machines are the worst on the market. I regret having bought mine. The
computers malfunction often, and they have terrible customer service. The
DVD & CD burners work seemingly when they want to, and half your time will
be spent waiting while the computer is confused and figuring out what it's
doing. If you want speed & reliability, don't get their products. I'm a
writer, and have decided to transfer all my material to another unit before
the Big One happens and I'm forced to turn its guts into sculpture."

Don't waste any money making that system perform. When it dies replace it
with a Dell $499 "as advertised" special.
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Travis King said:
My spare eMachines T1090 takes FOREVER to start up... I only have like
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or
3 things running in the taskbar, and I don't have much running in the
background either. It takes about 2 minutes per icon in the taskbar to
load. The hard drive is making a whiny noise, so failure might be imminent,
but it's been like that for a year now. As for the startup, it's been like
that for two years now. Any ideas?
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I understand that your response was OT. I was just trying to make the point
of not putting any money into the eMachine if the hard drive is defective or
dying. If it isn't a hardware problem, and you were supplied a Recovery CD,
or an OEM Windows XP CD, you might try a clean install with the OEM CD, or
use the Recovery CD, which will wipe the drive clean and give you an image
of the hard drive as it was shipped (OS, software bundle, drivers etc.)
Using either method, you would lose any of you data files, so back them up.
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Travis King said:
The eMachines was MY first personal computer that I had for myself. My
family pitched in just to get me started... (We already owned a computer,
but I never had my own) I'm 15 you know. I wanted a computer as a
Christmas gift, and it took them quite a bit just to be able to buy me the
cheapest of the line. (My spending limit for Christmas is supposed to be
only around $100, but I almost always go over) Only two months later after
getting that eMachines up and running, I learned how to build computers. I
wanted to replace it at that time just because I wanted to have a CD burner
for backing up data and I heard that external burners (especially USB 1.1)
aren't that good. So I decided to build a new one. I came up with about
$1000 myself over the summer and built me a computer. I had my new one up
and running in October. It had a 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPU. (when I
bought the processor in June, it was one of the higher-quality processors
for AMD) I bought an 80GB hard drive, a Supercase, an Asus A7V333
motherboard, a 128MB video card etc. etc. I've done lots of upgrading to it
since... it's almost a new computer all over again. Back to the
eMachines... I will build custom built PC's from here on out as they're
higher quality than any manufacturer out there in my opinion. As you might
suspect, I'm not an Intel fan... So things like Gateway or Dell and some
cheaper systems I don't prefer. (I know everybody has there own opinion)

My up-to-date computer specs just so you know...
Asus A7V333 motherboard (still)
200GB total hard disk space (80GB + 120GB) They're both 7200RPM, one's 2MB
cache and the other is 8MB, and they're both Western Digital
Athlon XP 2400+ 2.00GHz
512MB DDR PC-3000 Kingston (yes PC-3000 exists)
128MB GeForce3 Ti200 video card (still)
Aspire X-Dreamer II with 400W PSU (NOT 350W)
DVD drive
32x CD RW drive (still)
10/100 networking
(much better than the e-machines)

To your car expression: I know don't have only have a Toyota in computer
terms; I've got a Lexus. :) (at least in comparison to what I had)

(This is a little off this topic, but I just wanted to let you know the
story)
t.cruise said:
I just looked at the specs for an a basic machine T0190, and am not
surprised at your problems. It's like buying a an inferior car and
wondering why it's not performing like a Porsche or even a Toyota.

Here's a review of your system from Amazon.com:

"Machines are the worst on the market. I regret having bought mine. The
computers malfunction often, and they have terrible customer service. The
DVD & CD burners work seemingly when they want to, and half your time will
be spent waiting while the computer is confused and figuring out what it's
doing. If you want speed & reliability, don't get their products. I'm a
writer, and have decided to transfer all my material to another unit before
the Big One happens and I'm forced to turn its guts into sculpture."

Don't waste any money making that system perform. When it dies replace it
with a Dell $499 "as advertised" special.
--

T.C.
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Travis King said:
My spare eMachines T1090 takes FOREVER to start up... I only have
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If I did buy a new hard drive, couldn't I stick in the floppy disk that
comes with the new hard drive, hook up the old one as slave and the new one
as master and use a utility on the floppy disk to transfer data over to the
new floppy? The eMachines doesn't have much effective ways to backup data.
I guess a good thing is though, if I do do that, I shouldn't lose much
because I have mostly the same files on my computer.
 
Travis said:
My spare eMachines T1090 takes FOREVER to start up... I only have
like 2 or 3 things running in the taskbar, and I don't have much
running in the background either. It takes about 2 minutes per icon
in the taskbar to load. The hard drive is making a whiny noise, so
failure might be imminent, but it's been like that for a year now.
As for the startup, it's been like that for two years now. Any ideas?
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You again! I'm not surprised you bought an eMachines. This begs the
questions: -

a) If the hard drive has been making an odd noise for a year, why are you
only just enquiring about it now?

b) If it's been slow for two years why are you questioning it now?

Are you really that slow?
 
Travis;
It is an old machine ! I noticed another post advised buying a Dell and
claiming the emachine was etc.etc. I have an emachine, bought new about one
year ago and have had no problems whatever. ( Knock on wood ) I'm POSITIVE
that there are those that would say that both Dell and emachines are junk.
Personally, I drive a Ford , knowing all the while that Rolls Royce builds a
much better machine. Why didn't I buy a Rolls ? That's easy , they don't
build pickups. Now if this emachine had an eight foot bed ,it would be
perfect. Lotsa luck with your antique computer.

Mad Max
 
Yes - me again. I apoligize for the getting carried away for that one
thing... Er, I don't know what I was thinking being that way. Secondly, I'm
not surprised that I have an eMachines either as our parents aren't that
rich to afford much more than that for me. (Notice that I had to come up
with mainly my own money to build my computer?) I have asked about the hard
drive months ago... I'm just mentioning as a possible thing that could cause
the problem. Lastly, I am finally asking this question because I don't use
the eMachines very often, (once a month usually) so I don't think about it
that much.
 
Mad Max, I'm not going to blame the problems I've had with my computer on
eMachines...Actually, I kind of like eMachines because I see more AMD
processors with these computers than I do with any other brand. Sure HP and
Compaq have some, but I've had terrible experiences with both componies. I
guess it's just never good to get really cheap computers... nothing more.
 
As someone else recently posted to someone whose system was having problems,
and who then got a new system and used the Files and Settings Transfer
wizard, and found that the new system then had the same problems as the old
one: Unless you're only transferring data files (that have been scanned for
viruses/worms) to the new drive, that's OK. But, if you're transferring
anything else, and if the problems are being caused by anything that isn't
hardware related, you risk carrying the bad baggage that might be causing
the problems (registry entries, corrupt files, viruses/worms) onto the new
drive, and wasting your time.
 
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