E-Machines W3052 PC Desktop - Page 2 - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Insert disc 1 into the cdrom drive and restart your computer.
Watch the boot screen for the option to boot to cd or to select boot options.

If onscreen boot options are not available. Enter your bios setup and select the boot tab. Highlight the cd and use arrows keys to move the cd rom to the top position. save and exit.

Follow the onscreen prompts and insert each additional disc when prompted.

Hope this helps

No you don't have to, you can use the whole 500 GB, if you want different hard drives then partition it,,, C: D; E: I keep mine at 500 cause I load alot of video clips in mpeg...

hi there! if you can configure your bios set up and go there, priority yout cd rom as first on the list,2nd your hard drive, in able to start and configure your windows set up promptly.How to open your bios set up,after switching on your pc, press F2 or delete depend on your start up windows appear on left bottom of screen if cmos/bios appear on blue screen select the boot sequence and arange the list of booting up your windows.In your screen resolution this will be adjusted after you finished the windows set up to new xp,you can adjust your scrren resolution, by left clicking on your windows xp on screen,click proreties, on properties box there adjustment of screen resolution there slide function key to 1680 X 1200.then click apply,click ok then restart your pc for effetivity or sometime it was auto restart after you change your screen resolution...,regards

THE CMOS BATTERY HAS FAILED AND A NEW ONE HAS TO BE INSTALLED

PUSH THE F10
SO YOU CAN GO INTO THE BIOS
SET THE TIME, DATE, KB, HD, CDROM,DVD,FLOOPYS, ANOTHER DEVICES YOU MAY HAVE
F10 SAVE
YES
REBOOT
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE OKAY

Hello;

So i guess that the PSU is good. As i diagnose of what you have said, i digested a conclusion that when the computer shutdown when application run. there a problem conflicting the application to another application or such an application trigering the system to shutdown.

Some causes of this problem are:

The system is infected by known and unknown virus
The driver of the system are not properly installed
The application program committed an errors trigering the system to shutdown.

Possible solutions:

1. Scan you system with a potent anti virus
2. Remove the installed driver of the sytem and reinstall it after restarting
3. Unistall the application that causes shutdown problem and you can reinstall it after restarting.
4. remove newly installed hardware or install the correct driver of the hardware.


Note in scanning your system with antivirus you should scan it it safemode.
some usefull links: http://www.precisesecurity.com/antivirus/online-scan.htm

If all the solution did not work to your system. please notify me for further solution.

best regards, melnavz

If you are putting in a new motherboard, the wiring may be different from your old one anyway. It's an easy project wiring up the board, just follow instructions in the manual and you will see the connectors on the wires are labelled HDD LED, POWER etc, so just look in the manual. If no manual find the make of mobo and come back.

Verify that the keyboard is connected properly to the computer by turning off your computer and then disconnecting and reconnecting the keyboard to the computer. Stuck key Ensure that there are no stuck keys on the keyboard. If all keys appear to be ok and you have a standard desktop computer with keyboard, turn the keyboard over and gently hit the back of the keyboard to loosen any dirt or hair that may be stuck in the keyboard. Bad keyboard Try another keyboard on the computer to verify that the keyboard has not gone bad. Bad PS/2 or AT port If all of the above solutions are not able to resolve your issue it is likely that the port on the back of the computer may be bad and the motherboard or I/O board may need to be replaced. WARNING: Before you start troubleshooting remember that you are dealing with electricity that can KILL. http://www.kitchentablecomputers.com/static.php - rules make sure that your RAM modules and Cmos battery are securely seated on some motherboards Cmos batteries are soldered in Test all power and data leads that attach from motherboard to your hard drive IDE SATA make sure they have a secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty if its a flat 40 pin ide it will be the first to fail check the graphics card is seated properly with no dust in the socket you might have to remove it to check for dust reinstall it restart your computer the found new hardware wizard should activate a computer needs power and data to travel through every working device and to its continue its cycle and to have and end to function. Hope this helps.

a notice via e-mail ? That is likely a scam/virus-redirect attack...with the 'submit' button being the attack. Your Anti-virus program may have automatically removed the malicious link for you so you would not have infected yourself.....

Hi John,I see you mentioned you update IE9 then you now get a blank screen...If I may ask the blank screen showed up after the update or did it show up after restarting the computer?If your getting a Blank screen when you boot into windows after the IE9 update, try rebooting then boot into Safemode.Restart you computer then as soon as you see the Boot screen of you computer keep on Tapping f8 to get a list select safemode, then once it boots into safemode windows will load up in safemode on the issue and you can navigate arround to fix things that went wrong.click on the Start Button on the lower left of the task bar then, click on Programs, select accessories then select system tools, look for system restore then select the option select a different restore point, on the window you may see a list of restore points hoping your system restore was turned on in the very beginning, once you have selected a restore point keep on clicking next then a warning will show just click next again then it will restart your computer.System restore allows you to restore to a date where you had windows working fine without any problems so if you can get a restore point before updating IE9 then it is possible that you may be able to fix you windows back the way it was.I hope that this will help,michaelvincentc

Try using another browser. eg Google Chrome or Firefox.

Your name Edit > My Problems > My Problems. Do you mean restarting PC? Or re-installing?

if you are using word open up word select view from the drop down list select toolbars select standard ,formatting also open up word across to the left you will see arial times new roman arial black next will be more to name a few of the different languages from the drop down list your documents will be read in also next to that will be a drop down list with all sizes you can change the sizes of text open up a document you should a number of tabs at the top of your screen you should see a number with % percentage with a drop down list which has many zoom increases if this is for a web page right click in the top of screen (toolbar) you will see a number of toolbar options select the menu bar this will add to your screen toolbar File Edit View Favorites Tools and Help select the view from the drop down list will be a Zoom with percentages % if you need more help with this post a reply hope it helps

do you get any error message?You will have to reinstall your Operating System only.

Three causes of ovheating:1) Dust. Dust inside the computer, Dust around the vents, fans, cpu and heat sink. Take a can of compressed air and clean the dust out of the computer.2) A Fan not working. Make sure the fan inside the Power Supply where you plug the power cord in works. Also there is a fan that sits on top of the CPU and Heat Sink. Make sure it works. Normally the system will give you an error message if the fan is not working.3) Thermal Paste - The Thermal Paste around the cpu and heat sink has dried up or is too thin to keep the unit cool. Apply a fresh coat of Thermal Paste on the CPU and Heat Sink.

which antivirus u use...tell me or start --all program accessories --system tools---then click security center.open it...then u click all enable

well that is 17,000 volts there 17kv and can be lethal . CRT is cathode ray tube and 2nd anode is 17kv, 1kv per inch screen.. we use a chicken stick to discharge that. one guy gut hit here and flew across the room ,hit head and next up paramedics deep.. not fun to see that. ive taking 600v but never again. vaccum seal, why do that.??? send it to the , toxic lead recycle center, let them do the danger work when I was only 16yo I worked in TV shop and I had do that "nnipp" that in the bud on all CRT sent off to refurb. (or toxic trash) (we sold them all here, you name it) we had to remove the socket there find he glass bud there dead center and full PPE, and snap it with wire cutters and it sucks in air fast. later in military too on old radar scopes, i worked . the vacuum inside is pure and prefect, zero gasses. implosion hazard exists. a glass flies in the bounces out and hits you and then next up blind i one eye. leave CRT alone to the trained.

the monitor is dead. PSU dead inside. only used PSU sold on ebay.

to boot a cd then you must have the bios set to allow it, or tap f12 immediately to intercept boot menu and choose cd. sounds like your drive has a few bad disk sectors.

firstly lets think why a Working pc would no longer BOOT. The boot process then. a pc starts the bios which POST's. this results in ONE BEEP which might be followed by messages(if you get several beeps then they are like morse code long/short and count out an error code). when you get your ONE BEEP the pc is working. when it then HANGS(appears to do nothing) its usually because of either a) the cd drive is duff so disconnect its cables. b) the hard drive is duff so disconnect its cables c) the hard drive hasnt quite died yet but has some very slow sectors and is making the Clackety Clack of the heads recalibrating every few seconds. d) there could be a a gpu card bios glitch and your pc is running but you just have a blank screen. some hints then 1) never start removing parts as that corrupts the CMOS(the battery backed up configuration for your BIOS) so you may need to clear your cmos. 2) never play with the idea of changing ram sticks as people usually end up putting them in any old slot(which may result in a non working pc). make sure a PAIR is fitted in slots 0/2 and a separate matching pair in 1/3 slots not in slots 0/1 which is two half pairs. Other factors. 1) a short circuit. your PSU has built in protection, if the psu fan(inside case of the psu) turns and kicks back and immediately stops you have a short circuit and its cuts the power to avoid a fire/meltdown, which could be caused by high wattage gpu(>60 watts) without its extra power cables fitted or wrongly connected front usb cables or removing a mainboard and fitting it into a new box where the board has its support posts NOT lined up with the holes fro the screws so the post is touching underside of the board circuits. hope some of that helps.

Download a Linux distro to a flash drive or DVD and see how well it runs off that. There's HDD utilities like SuperGrubDisk that can diagnose things.