20 Most Recent E-Machines eMachines Refurbished EMA eMachines PC Desktop Questions & Answers

Test your power supply for correct voltages. If they are all OK, then your motherboard is toast.

Heather, Before you make any physical changes to your current system read this and get back to me. Now.... just on a fundamental level once we identify what EXACTLY we need to accomplish what you NEED, futuristically it might here be suggested that you may have to purchase a higher wattage power supply. Based on my speculation of what you've provided tus far, your power supply is either going bad or its wattage is in the neighborhood of 185-300 Watts. It is here suggested when one is upgrading their system, it is a decent idea to upgrade the power supply as well. Keep the older one just in case. By the way, which fan are you striving to repair? If it's the cpu fan we'll probably replace that too. All of the previous is offered only if you have just a few budget constraints. Relative to creating a partition... are you speaking of your hard-drive? Kindly provide me with a System Information report. What operating system are you using, and what computer system do you own: Dell, Acer. Compaq, HP, etc.? I await your response. And please don't worry... we'll get it done!

There could be a number of causes. Do you hear any beeps when the computer starts up? Try seating all the chips in the motherboard. That means, apply pressure to each individual chip on the motherboard with your finger or thumb. The goal is to make sure each chip is securely attached to the board. Sometimes, heat or new h/w installs partially "pop" some of the chips out of the motherboard - causing the circuitry to be disconnected...

Run a memtest to see if your ram is faulty. If it is replace and go.

Could be a video card failure or a cable problem. This could also happen because the motherboard failed if you have integrated video. Unfortunately your going to have a tech onsite to repair the issue. That is, unless you want to install your own video card which would probably fix the issue.

crazy stuff here.. it might be the display or the harddrive check the pins on the display cable. how old is the PC? and have you added anything to the computer to damage the motherboard? I suggest doing a system recovery it might solve the promblem.

Hi,
Better to u purchase new motherboard.If u giving for service,next time other port problem coming.


Thanks

Buy a dianostics card, and find out if its the RAM, CPU, OR Motherboard. (sounds like a ram or CPU problem though) if you have more than one stick of ram in the system, take one out, and power it up, if still not response, to the other stick out, and put the stick you took out the first time, and put it back in.

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.

Unfortunately, without a specific model number for your monitor, this may vary from the manual I am referencing. Just the same, I should say the link should at least have enough similarities to get you out of a scenario mode, and into the custom configurations (that I am assuming you are after). The steps begin on the bottom of page 5. http://global-download.gateway.com/GDFiles/Document/User%20Manual/User%20Manual_Acer_1.0_A_A.zip?acerid=634321354437313817&Step1=MONITOR&Step2=FLAT%20PANEL&Step3=E182HL&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=EMACHINES&SC=PA_6E If you are using a similar model, clicking on the menu button will bring you in the OSD menu where you can customize the brightness, contrast, etc. Any changes will become a "custom" mode that will effectively take you out of anyone of the scenario modes. I have seen monitors that do not allow much customization (if any) outside of the scenario modes. You may find specifics if you search the monitor model number itself. If you post that information in the comments I can help you find info more specific to your display.