That Seabreeze motherboard is made by Intel. Even Intel can't have a 0% mobo failure rate.
You should have owned an eMachines with a Trigem motherboard, before they switched to FICs four years ago. Now, those blew, bigtime! And eMachines still uses cheapo OEM PSUs... when they crap out, they take the motherboard with them.
Anyone who owns an eMachines should replace the PSU as soon as the box is out of warranty. I did and have had no problems since.
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Frankenbox III:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ *** MOBO: Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 *** RAM: 2x1GB Kingston DDR2 667
HDD: WD 80GB Master, Seagate 320GB Slave *** DVD: Pioneer DVR-115DBK & LiteOn SOHW-812S DVD/CD burners
PSU: Antec SmartPower 2.0 350W *** GPU: PNY GeForce FX5200 256MB AGP 8x *** MON: ViewSonic LCD VA721
CASE: eMachines *** SND: Diamond Xtreme 5.1 *** PRN: Epson C88+ *** OS: XP Home SP2 *** ROUTER: Linksys BEFSR41
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