20 Most Recent E-Machines eMachines W2686 PC Desktop Questions & Answers

Have you rebooted your device?

you have to download sound driver for this.

Here is the link for the drivers also in that page you can download small software utility called hardware detection tool Driver page

Check the mouse settings in control panel. I believe there is a setting to disable the click noise.

Click the "Start" button, then choose "Control Panel," "Network and Internet" then finally "Setup a Bluetooth enabled device."

Power on the Bluetooth Hardware you want to connect to the computer. You must have some sort of hardware to connect to the computer, in order to enable the Bluetooth connection.

Click "Add" and the computer searches for any Bluetooth hardware in the area. Once it detects the hardware, select it and click "Next."

Type in the passkey for the Bluetooth hardware (found in the device's user manual) and click "Next."

Install any drivers now that came with the Bluetooth hardware. (Insert the driver installation CD that comes with the Bluetooth hardware, wait for the the installation wizard to load onto the screen, accept the license agreement, then click "Next" for the installation name and location and select "Install" to install the drivers.) Choose "Locate and install driver software" if there are provided drivers. If not, click "Don't show this message again for this device" and click "OK." hope this helps

if you're not sure if a module is right for your system, use the Crucial Memory Advisor tool for a list of guaranteed compatible modules. first you will need to select the manufacturer from a drop down list then select your product line from a drop down list then select the model then click find it will take you directly to compatible ram also you will have an option to scan your system

hope this helps

Start PC, then just after BIOS screen loads, Press and keep tapping F8 until the safemode option screen come on. Choose Safemode.

Step 1
START THE COMPUTER. DO THIS BY PRESSING THE POWER BUTTON. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL WINDOW LOADS TO PERFORM STEP 2.
Step 2
PRESS F8 KEY ***BEFORE*** WINDOWS VISTA BEGINS START UP. THIS WILL PROVIDE A LIST OF OPTIONS FOR HOW TO PROCEED.
Step 3
CHOOSE TO START YOUR COMPUTER IN "SAFE MODE".
Step 4
OPEN THE START MENU.
Step 5
OPEN THE CONTROL PANEL (from within the Start Menu).
Step 6
SELECT "USER ACCOUNTS AND FAMILY SAFETY" IN THE CONTROL PANEL POP-UP WINDOW.
Step 7
CLICK THE "CHANGE YOUR WINDOWS PASSWORD" LINK BENEATH THE "USER ACCOUNTS" SECTION.
Step 8
CLICK "REMOVE PASSWORD". VERIFY AND SUBMIT.
Step 9
RESTART YOUR COMPUTER NORMALLY. DO NOT PRESS F8.
Step 10
TO RESET A PASSWORD, ACCESS THE "USER ACCOUNTS AND FAMILY SAFETY" MENU AGAIN. THIS TIME CLICK "CHANGE YOUR WINDOWS PASSWORD", PROVIDE THE DESIRED PASSWORD, VERIFY AND SUBMIT. THIS TIME, WRITE YOUR PASSWORD DOWN.

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if you rebooted your computer and all the connections and volume settings are right, no mute set. You can check your operating system by using the following link.
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/no_sound

You can also check the speaker on other computers or sound devices to see whether they are working properly.

Sometimes the sound card connection is not connected properly, you can open the box and replug it and press it tight towards the slot on the mother board. If you have a spare sound card, you can check whether the sound card is working by replacing it. If you are playing CD from your CDROM, the cable connection from your CDROM for sound playback to the mother board may not connect properly, you can check to see that two wires are actually connected.

Perform a clean boot if possible to see whether there are software conflicts for the sound. Also you can use the sound card embeded on *********** board to see whether they are working so there might be some configuration issue in BIOS or configuration issue.

Make sure you have a dvd/cd rewriter and software for copying software and a disk thats empty if that fails go to (microsoft.fixit) your repair will comes under my dvd/cd cant write it will then automaticlly sort the repair but wont carrie out any repair usless you give the ok.You can then link this system to your computer so any further problems needing repairs they could fixit for you.This is a free repair site but is running out for vista

You didn't mention up to where is the display. There are cases that this is cause by corrupted operating system (reistall OS) and defective memory modules. You can remove your memory module and reinstall again (one at a time if you have more than one module).
Good luck

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Open cpu cabinet then you can motherboard pull cmos cell from motherboard for 10 seconds then put it back reconnect RAM memory reconnect both connection to harddrive .Make sure motherboard is not ground with cabinet. Then check. Also when you power up the computer press F8 key 5 to 6 times then if you are able to see safe mode and other menu enter in "Enable vga mode" then go to display property and change screen resolution to 1024*768 then apply. Let me know if you need further assistance. Thanks for using FixYa.

Pulled the wires off of just the Power On switch? http://www.directron.com/atxswitch.html

(Goes inside the Power On button)

Or did you pull ALL the wires off of the Front Panel? (Also known as Front Bezel)

The eMachines W2686 uses a NexGen computer case.

http://www.e4allupgraders.info/dir1/ecase/support/ecase_identification.shtml

Is this NexGen Front Bezel like yours?

http://www.alancomputech.com/asem101152bz.html

Any PC that uses a motherboard with onboard video will either have a BIOS setting to disable the onboard video or it will automatically be disabled when you insert an external video card (AGP or ePCI).

Hmm, well that probably isn't correct. If it would need a new fuse it would probably need a new power supply.

u have to run recover cd, which will boot from cd. A. 1. repair - click / select the repair option. 2. it will repair operating system files. it will automatic restart after repair, than remove the cd and boot the system.
B. 1. If u don't have any data in C drive u can format the drive 2. install the operating system freshly 3. u should have drivers cd's . rgds, Manju

it's not issue of CPU problem 1st chack your CPU Fan is working or not then only u can find the pro

try this steps: 1. click windows button bellow 2. click run 3. type dxdiag then hit enter. (dxdiag is a diagnostic test to find out if your sound system is working properly. 4. after you launch the dxdiag in your system and there will be a dialog box appear in your screen, just click YES button then your done then after clicking the YES button the dxdiag box appear in your screen. 5. wait while the dxdiag box loaded it jurisdiction as shown below the box. then when it's done just click the next page button below. 6. To know if your system has a sound. simply click the sound button on the upper side of the dxdiag box. then click the Test DirectSound. when you click the specified button there will be a dialog box again but just click yes to play the sound but take note you should have speaker or a headset to hear the sound. 7.For more (you can install a sound driver for back up). God bless and I hope this step will help you in your problem.

Remove hard drive, find out make and model of hard drive. Go to hard drive manufacturer's website and download testing software (if you have another computer with internet access). Should be a bootable ISO file. Burn the boot cd and run it on the host computer after reinstalling the hard drive. Sounds like a bad hard drive in my opinion.