bonafide

My buddy bought a eMachine 500idx. He bought it second hand and so there is no restore disk. I've been to emachine's website and even live chated with one of their techs.

He said the restore disk is 20 dollars and here's the kicker, they will neither check nor money order as payment. My beef is this: most companies offer their updated drivers readily to the public, why not this one. Their downloads page is devoid of anything actually useful.

Here's my question: anyone outthere know where i can snag some of these drivers for this system?

Thanks,
Jeremy