My emachines W3052 desktop won't start but powers cpu fan and the hard drive light is steady on

what power indications do you get? does it power on at all? have you tried a different power cord or perhaps a different outlet? maybe either your surge protector/power strip went bad, or somehow isn't functioning. it's also possible that you're getting dirty power which is power that's not exactly 115v ac

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I don't think it's an overheating CPU. It would stay on for a bit longer if it was that. My best guess is a power supply issue. Either your power supply is bad, or more likely something is pulling too much power from it. Emachines are notorious for using the bare minimum hardware... possibly the extra hard drive is pulling more juice than the power supply can handle, so it shuts down. Try disconnecting power to the new hard drive and see if the machine comes up. If it does, you need a new, higher wattage power supply.

Hi Nicki,
Sorry, this really sounds bad, it would seem that the hard drive is shot from your description. The data may or may not be recoverable. If you get a new drive, you will have to partition it first, then set it as your Master drive, then set the old one as a slave, install your operating system onto the master drive and try to recover the information on the old drive after you have that done. If you cannot successfully recover the information that way, you most likely won't be able to get it at all unless you backed it up onto a flash or cds or dvds.
Sorry for the news but that is what it sounds like
Joe

Did you check the CMOS battery and the CPU fan. Those are two things that if aren't working the way they should be, then some computers will not boot up. Try this first then post a response if you still can't get it working.

Hello there:
ok unplug everything from the board first and power up and see what happnes. if nothing still unplug the powersupply to the motherboard and press in the power button and hold it in for 1 min and than plug in the powersupply to the motherboard and see what happnes. Also doublecheck the jumper for the cmos. ok please keep me informed there is a lot more that we can do but lets try this first ok best regards mike

My computer does a similar thing, the issue with mine is the mother board which requires everything to be at a certain temperature. Let it run on the start screen for a couple minutes and hit the reset button. If it doesn't boot up you're going to have to get more involved with your PC. Turn off the power, unplug the cord from your power supply, open the case, look for the battery and the JP8 (CLRTC) jumper. Move the jumper from pins 1-2 over to 2-3, wait 30 seconds, and move the jumper back. Close the case, plug in the power cord, turn on your machine, and boot it up. If it still fails to boot check that all cables are securely attached (inside and out), check that the RAM is securely seated, and check the CMOS battery to be sure it is not dead. Beyond this you're looking at a component failure and should contact a repair tech.

P.S. if you feel up to it and can't wait for service, pull the hard drive out of the first computer and use it in a different computer. Be sure to unplug the hard drive from the second computer.

Easy fix! Sounds like you bought a bad Power supply. Purchase an identical p.supply and it will run like a car!

Hard Drive Clicking = Going Towards End Of Life

Put the hard drive in a working pc and get any important data off it , its about to die!!!!!!!

Get a new hard drive and do a windows reinstall (not like you have a choice)

not sure about the rest though sorry

It's hard to troubleshoot a power supply. They are very dangerous and contain electricity for some time after turned off. If your new one isn't solving your problem it makes me think it's not the power supply unless it's not powerful enough. Try this:
Open your case having your "CPU & HEATSINK" in sight. You can lay your case on its side if its easier to see this. Power up watching only the cpu fan located on or in the attached device over your processor (cpu). If it doesn't turn then that is likely your problem. CPU is overheating which automatically shuts down system. Pls. make sure both 20-24 pin and 4 pin plugs from power supply are tightly plugged in mother board before you start.
If it is working try another power outlet in your house. Sounds odd but is a known issue.
Could be a few more things but these are most common.
Let me know pls. your results.

sounds like something is drawing down on your 12 volt supply drives or on board regulators. Try it without the drives connectged, and see if you can get the system to boot up(you'll just get a notice that your drives are unavailable, but you'll already know that, right?

got backup for your Dell?