{"id":3225,"date":"2011-02-04T22:37:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T03:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2011-02-04T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T03:38:16","slug":"friends-dont-let-friends-buy-emachines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/friends-dont-let-friends-buy-emachines\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Don&#8217;t Let Friends Buy eMachines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/computers\/random_computer_stuff\/IMG_5882.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96326-2\/IMG_5882.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"CPU from an eMachine that wasn't seated in the socket and came out when the heatsink was removed.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Danielle&#8217;s dad&#8217;s computer has been having a bunch of problems, and as some of them seem malware-related I am planning on wiping the computer and reinstalling Windows XP. Unfortunately when attempting to back up data it keeps rebooting unexpectedly, so I&#8217;ll have to pull the disk to recover data. I suspect the power supply may be going, which may cost a non-trivial amount if it&#8217;s even worth replacing.<\/p>\n<p>Worse than that, when dusting out the machine I decided to pull the CPU heatsink \/ fan assembly as it was pretty well caked with dust. When I did this the CPU popped out along with the heatsink because the CPU <u>was not latched in place<\/u>. The downward pressure of the heatsink retention mechanism must have been allowing it to make enough contact to work. (For those that don&#8217;t know, CPUs normally sit in sockets with large latching levers which actuate contacts to ensure that all pins make contact. This wasn&#8217;t set in the socket, just on it. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CPU_socket\">Here<\/a> is a diagram.)<\/p>\n<p>I hate working on eMachines. The cost saved up front bites you in frustration and parts later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle&#8217;s dad&#8217;s computer has been having a bunch of problems, and as some of them seem malware-related I am planning on wiping the computer and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/friends-dont-let-friends-buy-emachines\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friends Don&#8217;t Let Friends Buy eMachines<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}