Posts by grateful lurker

Quote: Originally Posted by [Xaero] Right about the time the flicker started, it also developed a problem where the CPU fan would spin up to high speeds then shutoff the laptop (completely randomly). At that point I...

Quote: Originally Posted by lwgray Woo Hoo! (I think) I believe we might be starting to chisel through the wall: "This could be due to the power supply, heat spreader or cooling system of your notebook. We...

Quote: Originally Posted by GrahamN I'd send the machine back, but I see no sign that eMachines has any clue what the problem is. They are highly unlikely to be able to reproduce it on demand as it is so...

I had this problem with my MX500 plugged into one of the back USB ports. When I plugged it into one of the left side ports problem went away. Go figure...

Thanks for the info... BTW, tonight I had a shutdown that started as I was hitting the Delete button to boot to the bios from a cold start...

This may be off topic, but I'm looking for anything that might solve this... Looking through the bios options (0F08.P00) I notice under I believe the Power(?) tab something called "RF Power Control". The info screen on the...

Ok, today I got so frustrated by three shutdowns before the Windows fully loaded that I decided to try BigSteve's solution of booting to the bios to let the system "warm up." But a seemingly strange thing happened -- within...

Here's a wonderful new development... Quote: something weird happened this morning. I had the laptop pluggen in and was surfing the net. then after half an hour the fan suddenly started working as hell. it shut down,...

See this thread: http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=68948

Quote: Originally Posted by lwgray Lurker, I'm one month over the base warranty and did purchase an ESP from eMachines. I asked that question specifically and will let you know how they will be treating the...