Top 20 E-Machines T2240 PC Desktop Questions & Answers

Look on the motherboard and you will see abbreviated inscriptions for Power, Hard Drive, Reset, etc. (PWR, HDD, RST will be the abbreviations)

Monitor states No Signal, because it isn't receiving a Video Signal, from the computer.This can be from;A) A bad monitor cableB) Bad graphics card, or bad graphics chipset on the motherboardC) Computer isn't working. (May look, and sound as though it is)A1) If a flat LCD screen monitor (Digital), does it have a removable monitor cable, and do you have access to a working monitor cable of the same, to use for a test?A2) If not, do you have access to another KNOWN to be working monitor, and cable? Use it for a test.Or use your monitor and cable on a Known to be working computer.Monitor and monitor cable prove to be good?Next is go to the graphics card, or graphics chipset.B1) Graphics Chipset:Primer:Chip and Chipset are slang terms for I.C.Integrated Circuit,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_CircuitA graphics chipset is a GPU. Graphics Processing Unit,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPUA GPU can be soldered directly to the motherboard. This is Integrated Graphics. (Another term used for Integrated Graphics is OnBoard Graphics.ON the motherBOARD)A GPU can also be soldered to a removable adapter card.This is a graphics card. Also known as a video card.If the graphics chipset is though to be bad, a graphics card is installed, (Drivers FIRST, then physically install the graphics card)You won't be using the motherboard, or Integrated Graphics anymore.You will be using the graphics of the graphics card. This is how a graphics chipset problem is cured.( If my data is correct, the eMachines T2240 Desktop PC uses an FIC VL35G motherboard.First International Computer {Inc},http://www.ebay.com/itm/eMachine-HP-VL35G-865G-P4-Socket-478-uATX-Motherboard-/270778135974#vi-content Has an AGP expansion slot { Brown slot above the 3 white PCI slots } for a graphics card )C1) Computer not workingI think you can skip B1) and go here first.Reasoning is, that 80 to 90 percent of desktop computer failure, can be attributed to;Computer is dirty insideBad Power SupplyStart with computer is dirty inside. Computer on a table, computer unplugged from power, computer case open. Follow Anti-Static Precautions, check out the condition of the inside of the computer.[Anti-Static Precautions:Your body carries Static electricity. Static WILL fry out (Short Circuit) the delicate hardware components inside a computer.Computer on a table, computer unplugged from power, computer case open, TOUCH an unpainted surface, of the metal frame of the open computer case.SHOULD you leave your computer in the middle of working on it, be SURE to Touch the metal frame again upon your return ]If the computer is dirty inside use a can, or two of compressed air for computers, and clean it out.You may also need Q-tips to break the outside 'crust', by stirring it around. Then the compressed air can remove it better.[ You may wish to don a dust mask, and protective eye-wear ](Especially good for where the fan blades, meet the center hub of the fan; Edges of fan blades, and other areas )Insert the plastic straw provided on the side of the can, into the nozzle at the top of the can.Break the plastic lock tab off of the top of the nozzle.Start at the top left, or right inside corner.Spray air as a professional paint sprayer would. Squeeze the trigger in all the way as you start, let go when you reach the other side.Drop down a space, and spray air across again. Keep dropping down in rows, and spraying across until you reach the Processor Fan.The Processor Fan sits on top of a finned Heatsink. The Heatsink sits on top of the Processor.(The construction of the Heatsink is basically a small plate of metal, with tall, thin fins protruding from it. The plate of metal absorbs heat from whatever object it is placed against, { Processor in this case}, and the tall, thin fins absorb heat from the plate of metal.The tall, thin fins then radiate the heat away. The air flow from the Processor Fan, goes in-between the fins, and around the fins, and helps to carry heat away from the fins )Use special care to ensure that the fan is clean, and the Heatsink.However note that only use Short Bursts of air, when cleaning the Processor Fan.(Q-tips come in handy here)The Processor Fan is only designed to spin so fast. Spinning it faster than it was designed for (Long blasts of air), may shorten the life of the fan's bearings.Keep cleaning until you reach the bottom of the computer case. Tilt the top of the case towards you, clean the bottom of the case.The Power Supply is inside the computer case at the Top/Back.Clean through the ventilation holes of the Power Supply's case, as best as you can.Go around to the back, and clean the Fan, and surrounding cage. (Shroud)Come back to the inside once more, and give it one last 'dust off'.Also after time 'corrosion' develops on the contact pins, of the Ram Memory modules.The Ram Memory module/s should be removed, and a pencil eraser used to clean the contact pins.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Generic_DDR_Memory_%28Xytram%29.jpgThe Body of the ram memory module ('Stick'), is everywhere but the contact pins, at the bottom.A ram memory module should be handled by the Body.The Body is coated with a see-through protective plastic.Refrain from touching the gold plated contact pins.If an eraser is used on the end of a pencil, and not a solid eraser, refrain from letting the metal band touch the contact pins.Rub EACH contact pin. There are 184 pins. 92 on each side.(Doesn't take long)After cleaning use air to remove the eraser dust. You can use air from a can of compressed air, or air from your mouth will be sufficient.Reinstall the Ram Memory module/s.C2) Power SupplyCould have a weak voltage power rail. LED lights could light, and maybe fans spin, but Not enough power to turn the Processor on.A) IF all of the LED lights were on at once, they would use less than 1 Watt of power.B) EACH fan uses 2 to 3 Watts of power.C) A typical Processor can use 51 to 125 watts of power. Just depends on what Processor it is.There are 3 main voltages produced by the Power Supply.A) 3.3 Volts (DC) { Orange wires}B) 5 Volts (DC) { Red wires}C) 12 Volts (DC) { Yellow wires }{ALL Black wires are Ground wires }Test the Voltages to see if the Power Supply is good, (Multimeter), or use a KNOWN to be good, compatible power supply for a test unit.[Sometimes it's found that there may be an unused desktop computer around, that may have a working power supply, and it may work in the computer you are testing ]If no spare power supply is available, purchase an economical $30 unit for a replacement.{ATX}If you just want your information off of the harddrive, install it into an economical external enclosure, and remove your data.[ It is an IDE (PATA) harddrive. It is desktop size, which is 3 and 1/2 inches across in width. You need an IDE (PATA) 3.5 external enclosure.Example,http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1733195&CatId=2779 ]For additional questions please post in a Comment.Regards,joecoolvette

If you still have a PCI slot available would recommend PCI video card which are available for Window operating systems. Based on the computer you have, a 512mb PCI card would be more than enough, easy to intall and windows will install driver required on power up.Video cards are available everywhere and the price has dropped dramatically.

Usually if your seeing the dash on the upper left corner it means it's still trying to load the Operating system (example: windows XP or Vista or Windows 7) of your computer . If it really stuck on that part, try to do this step

1. You said that you just finish the setup, so we need to know if the setup is completed or successful
2. You need to restart your computer either by pressing reset or the on/off switch
3. Before you get to the e-machine screen you need to press on F5 on your keyboard for 3-5 times
4. You should be getting a screen that will give you options like this

Safemode
Safemode with networking
Safemode with command prompt

5. You need to choose safemode and usually it will load the page of windows if the setup is completed or successful

6. If it doesnt load then you might need to have it reinstalled because chances are that the setup failed and not all the files we're installed causing your windows not to load completely.

Hope this help you a bit.. Have a great day.

Hi this will depend on weather you have an separate graphics card rather than an on-board one, if it is on-board you will not be able to replace it as the chip set for the graphics card are on the motherboard and you will have to replace the lot if the graphics have gone u/s, however if you have a PCIe, or an AGP connected graphics card, it should be in the first slot on the motherboard, open up the PC, and you should see the motherboard with lots of chips and a big fan, then you will have some slot's these are either AGP, PCI or PCIe slots, normally the AGP slot is brown in colour, the PCI slots are normally white, and the PCIe slot is normally blue or green, just really depends on the manufacturer of the board, the graphics card will be in the first ( top ) slot, if you have no "addin" cards then everything is on-board, and if its an e-machine, i dare say it will all be on-board...hope this helps

Reformat your hard drive, reinstall windows, and reinstall your drivers and programs, and copy your data from backup.

You can download your drivers from www.emachines.com.

Also, you can order your recovery cds from emachines from the same website. Have fun!

The brand doesnt matter, you do need to be concerned with the type you use.

I looked up your computer on emachine's website and determined that you can use 184-pin DDR 266 memory.

search results from newegg (a trusted online retailer in computer/networking hardware):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=%2040000147&Description=pc2100&bop=And&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20

kingston and pqi are both respectable companies for memory


That being said, I would contact emachine to determine the maximum amount of ram supported by your motherboard:

the page specific to your computer (contact info at bottom):

http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T%20Series&model=T2240

if you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks,
Mike

It could be a shortage of power! U'll need to check the power supply to see if its good do a smell check then from there we can go ahead!

KJR

Make sure the power supply is set to 110v. If it is then try unseating and reseating the CPU.

If that doesn't work then go ahead and try unseating and reseating the memory one stick at a time in each slot one at a time. Try turning on the computer after each reseat of the memory.

Make sure only the power supply connectors to the motherboard are hooked up, the main connector and the 4 pin connector.

If after all of that it still doesn't work then the motheboard is bad.

i would recommend swapping out your psu (power supply) for a spare if possable before trying anything else, also if promlem persists try taking out a componant at a time(ram,hard drive/s,dvd/cd roms and try to start the system after each componant removal if it powers on after removal its likely the part has died and will need replaceing if all of this fails then i think u mite have a blown motherboard if still under warrenty contact your reseller or u could get a cheap replacement motherboard from a online auction site and rebuild

I problem may be with your SMPS .Try changing it .It should work fine then.Else there may be a problem with you board

Hi,

Download this VGA driver and install it. It could be that your drivers are outdated for the games.

• http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/VGA/VGA_Intel_6.13.1.3317_XPx86_A.zip?acerid=633930732610641500&Step1=Desktop&Step2=T%20Series&Step3=T2240&OS=X01&LC=en&BC=eMachines&SC=PA_6E

If this does not resolve the problem I would recommend buying a graphics card.

Hope this helps!!!

The form factor of a motherboard determines the specifications for its general shape and size. It also specifies what type of case and power supply will be supported, the placement of mounting holes, and the physical layout and organization of the board

Make sure your connections to the motherboard are secure.
Is this an integrated video or a separate card?
In my experience, if the video does not work, it can be a bad power supply (shouldn't be it if your replacement supply was new).
If the video is integrated, it could have been damaged when your old power supply quit.
If you have access to another video card, try it.
Next step is to disconnect all the stuff except the memory and video and try the machine. Should get something on the screen. A bad CD or bad hard drive could keep the video from starting.

I assume there are no post codes (beeps)?

Pull everything including the video card, leave only the RAM and CPU installed.

Try powering it on, You should hear a long beep, then some short ones to tell you the video card wasn't detected.

If you still don't get any post beeps, try resetting the BIOS, and re-seat your RAM.

If it still doesn't post it could be a system board mounting issue, bad system board, bad RAM, bad CPU, or bad Power Supply

I would start by replacing the power cable to the monitor. If you don't hear your hard drive then maybe the power cable to your power supply is bad or you have a bad power supply. So first make sure the cable that goes from the wall to the power supply is good. If it is good make sure the power supply is turning on. If it is then make sure that the power cable from either the wall or your computer to the monitor is good.

Memory: Each memory slot can hold DDR PC2700,DDR PC3200 with a maximum of 1GB per slot. You may purchase here.
This will give you the biggest speed increase.

CPU: I could not find specs for which cpus this motherboard supports. However, I had one of these same machines and succesffuly swapped out the celeron processor for a pentium 4 processor, 2.53 GHz. You should be safe finding a used processor on ebay that's a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz and it should work for you.

Thanks and please take a moment to rate as fixya.

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driver site
http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T%20Series&model=T2240

Hi slcdane 13. One thing with DIMM slots is that, first of all they are color coded there. Im assuming that you have 4 DIMM slots and two of them are one color, and the other two are another color. What that means is that is if One DIMM slot has a RAM module of a certain capacity, then the other DIMM slot of the same color has to contain a RAM module of the same capacity as the first module. Now i am assuming that you have more than two RAM modules and More than 2 DIMM slots. HERE IS AN EASIER EXAMPLE
Lets say you have DIMM slots 1, 2, 3, and 4. Slots 1 and 3 are yellow, and slots 2 and 4 are red. Now lets say you also have 4 Ram modules. 2 of them are each 2 Gigabytes ready, and the other 2 are each 1 Gigabyte ready. Now lets say you take one of the 2 Gigabyte RAM modules and you place it into DIMM slot 1 which is yellow, what this means is that you have to place the other 2 Gigabyte RAM module into the DIMM slot 3 which is also yellow. The remaining 1 Gigabyte modules will have to go into DIMM slots 2 and 4 which are red.

Now do you get it? Same capacity modules have to go into same color slots. Now try it and see.

low density works alot more often then high density, HD is just cheaper and thats mostly why it't not compatible with as many boards.
Good luck,
Lee