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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

Anybody know where to get replacement keyboards for these?
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- Post #1,248
- Nov 18, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

Umm - I'm the one saying that they can't refuse to honor the warranty if you install it (unless you've spoken to them and they specifically told you not to - in which case they WILL have a record of that call, and while unlikely, could conceivably try to refuse you warranty service unless you...
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- Post #1,176
- Feb 10, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

Just to clarify, the eMachines update announced on Big Fix cannot possibly considered unsupported *unless* you've phoned eMachines yourself and essentially asked to be told that. Once you phone eMachines there's a record in their system of you being told not to use it, but up until that point...
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- Post #1,171
- Feb 10, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

You're misinformed on both counts, I'm afraid. * Most BIOS updates are to fix programming errors (bugs) in the original BIOS that cause unintended problems with hardware or software, including operating systems. * SP2 is highly recommended, particularly for users who don't know much about...
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,170
- Feb 10, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

As I said, it is not an "email". It is a support agent program that runs in the background on your computer. You probably uninstalled it - another indication of the fact that you're not the target user for it, and would likely know more than the target user. The average M680X user who got...
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,169
- Feb 10, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

If you owned another laptop in the series, received that message from Big Fix, and didn't know your model number, would you not assume it applied to you? Tuen Mun eh? I grew up on Waterloo Road, as well as Pik Uk and Ta Ku Ling San Tsuen (Clearwater Bay). Also lived in Tsim Sha Tsui (Mody...
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- Post #1,162
- Feb 8, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

All the information you needed to form a correct assessment was in his original post: "got the Big Fix message a couple weeks ago that a BIOS upgrade was available for "my" M6805. I was almost going to download the update, but decided that I should call tech-support just to make sure that...
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- Post #1,157
- Feb 8, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

The point you're missing is that eMachines advised everybody that the update was for them through their update software, regardless of whether they had a 6805 or not. The moment they did that, they had officially stated that the BIOS update is for the entire 680X series. If you're still under...
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,154
- Feb 8, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

This is an utterly ludicrous viewpoint. Emachines released the BIOS update, and they notified users of laptops other than the 6805 of the update - hence they have absolutely no choice but to support the update officially if your laptop is still under warranty. BIOS updates are not some...
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,150
- Feb 7, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

Wow, and only FIVE MONTHS after XP SP2 was released (well, five months to the day as of tomorrow). It is also available through their website, but only if Javascript is enabled in your browser, and only in the M6805 section - not those for the M6807, M6809 or M6811. The M6810 still isn't even...
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,145
- Jan 24, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

A standard power inverter designed for use with laptops (get a surge-protected one) will do the job just fine. You may well find that when your car's idling, it doesn't provide enough power though - in mine I only get sufficient power to charge the laptop when driving.
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,138
- Jan 21, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

Just a confirmation that I have experienced the Gateway 7405GX hinge cracking problem on a laptop that's about three weeks old, and has been treated like gold dust.
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,083
- Nov 21, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Just a confirmation that I have experienced the Gateway 7405GX hinge cracking problem on a laptop that's about three weeks old, and has been treated like gold dust.
- gweilo8888
- Post #13
- Nov 21, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

Has anybody who'd already bought the laptop had a word with Best Buy about this yet? As you can imagine, I'm pretty upset that less than five days after I bought it, they've suddenly discounted it by $200 plus over what I'd paid. You don't expect a brand new model to be discounted so quickly...
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,048
- Oct 25, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official eMachines M68xx Thread**

It seems noticeably faster on loading certain programs that have always taken a long time to load (Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Paint Shop Pro 9, etc.) There's no difference in hard disk or setup (since the hard disk was taken out of one laptop and placed in the other, fragmentation / programs...
- gweilo8888
- Post #1,041
- Oct 23, 2004
- Forum: Laptops

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