Home > Consumer Reviews > HP Pavilion a350n Desktop PC (2.80-GHz Pentium 4 (Hyper-Threading), 512 MB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD+RW/CD-RW Combo Drive)

I have owned my a350n for several years now and really find it still very efficient for all my needs. Over the years I've added 1.5GB of DDR Memory, a 128mb video card and a 300 watt power supply. For the little extra expense in upgrading I've avoided having to upgrade to a new PC for now. I expect another 2 years of usage out of this machine before I invest in newer technology.

My Hp a350n arrived with its packing material crushed. There is a 1 inch scratch, white on gray, on the top front of the tower and the cd-rom door appears to have not been installed properly. It is hanging open at an angle. I am attempting to bring the computer up now but the flopping cd-rom door, which makes loading software from cds tricky, and the ugly scratch are a distraction.

My Hp a350n arrived with its packing material crushed. There is a 1 inch scratch, white on gray, on the top front of the tower and the cd-rom door appears to have not been installed properly. It is hanging open at an angle. I am attempting to bring the computer up now but the flopping cd-rom door, which makes loading software from cds tricky, and the ugly scratch are a distraction.

Like the other person, this PC did not work right out of the box. I changed it for another and it also failed to work, but it took a few hours for me to find that out.
I have found it to be very slow, locks up a lot, and stops responding in the middle of your work.
I have also received little to no help from HP, I was told to bring it back again and get a refund and buy it from their online store, WHY? They would not honor their warranty.
I also had a problem when I installed the printer software (HP) the computer tried to install the software everytime I clicked on an icon on the desktop. I tried to do a system recovery, this helped that problem. I then redid all the work I had done before and made a recovery DVD. Only to find that after I did this the DVD drive shut down and I cannot use the drive. I tried to do the system recovery again but it did not restore the dvd drive.
One of the features I went for was the DVD drive. I thought I would give HP another try and switch it out yet AGAIN, to find that again the software was installing itself but this time it was MS Money the software that is already on the PC when you buy it and they dont give you the disc and it would prompt me to insert my disc to either un/install the product. i had a service person look at the problem and told me that I needed to recover the whole system to rid the problem, so again I spent waisted hours re-doing the whole setup process and getting all the software back on the pc. To have the DVD drive go out again.
DONT WAISTE YOUR MONEY FOR THIS OVER PRICED TYPEWRITER!!!!
I say it is a typewriter cause all you can do is type anything else is too much for this pc to handle.