eMachines E - Popular Questions, Answers, Tips & Manuals

Have you checked speakers on another computer. Get it checked first if it working on another computer or other device. If it working reinstall realteK audio drivers.

the hard drive needs to be replaced

Usually replacing the coin cell battery fixes the no boot problem. Look on the motherboard around the processor socket. Electrolytic capacitors can overheat. If you see any of them that are bulging (top is domed instead of flat), they are bad. Trying to replace all the bad ones is tedious and expensive. May be cheaper to replace the motherboard.

The entire unit can got damaged.

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Is your Computer free of Malware ,etc , work on what you can clean off the Computer,as a !st try , see if it make a difference, last resort to reload Windows 7.

If system restore not working you can always try to do a repair operation with the disks that came with your machine. If you have no disks you are out of luck and will have to reload the machine with new software. If concerned about losing data/files you can remove the hard drive and install it as secondary on another working machine, download the files you want to a usb stick and reload the hard drive and re install the files you previously saved. Good luck

This might be a dodgy stick of memory or memory slot. If you have more than 1 stick of memory, see what happens if you just use variations of just 1. Maybe try disonnecting all drives except the one you boot from. And, not sure exactly what you mean by works once and how far it gets after removing the CMOS battery. But does it get far enough to boot from a cd? If it does, try getting hold of a AVG rescue disk this will run a pre-boot virus check which may clear the problem if you're lucky. Obviously you would have to use a friend's machine to burn the disk. Unlikely, but could be a failing powers supply. Borrow one and try it instead. Otherwise, it really sounds like a terminal motherboard issue to me. Godd luck.

That's easy. Open the side panel of the CPU. Locate the battery on the motherboard. Pull it out. Place a fresh one.

When Windows is updating you basically need to wait for it to finish before you power down or you will find yourself in that endless loop of updating. You may need to reboot into safe mode by pressing F8 as windows is staring up, then let it run updates and again reboot.

You probably have a bad power supply. An easy way to tell is if you plug another device (any electrical device will do) into your same power source (a power strip for instance) and if you have power to that device, you need a power supply. A decent repair place will charge $70 or so

Create a new user profile and start using that one after you copy your stuff from the old one.

If you forgot your Bios password then open the pc and reset the COS jumper. If forgot your Windows password then restart your computer press F8 . select Safe Mode and try administrative login to reset password. If you forgot the administrator password then use any third party software like Hirenboot to recover it.

Unless you do this for a living, you should let a pro do it.

Reinstall windows or use a linux program to remove the password.

Are you expecting a folder or program called 'e machines'? Many machines come with manufacturer branded bloatware, and many users uninstall this stuff to make their machines run better.

If your recovery partition is intact, or made recovery CDs, then yes. The machine will be returned the state it was in when it left the factory. If you have a pre-owned computer, or else the computer was not originally purchased with Windows pre-installed, the recovery partition may have been damaged or destroyed in which case the procedure will be very much more complicated and difficult and perhaps expensive.. Be sure you have copied your data to another disk and have noted any downloads yo have made so that you can replicate what you want. You might take this opportunity to test your hard drive for faukts. 18.December.2014 Acer will have the procedure on their website, and here is another version: http://www.ehow.com/how_2337743_do-emachines-system-recovery-.html

Check the driver in Device manager .If it shows yellow mark install the driver. Otherwise change the sound driver.

try changing the monitor, if this fails the video card on the computer needs changing.