20 Most Recent E-Machines etower 333cs PC Desktop Questions & Answers

1996 PC .no used thing is error free for sure PCs.so is not a RIP off, buying used means you get to fix all that.just like used cars same.there is no XP support then or now.and many old PCs the chipsets inside have no above vista support at all or higher.lots wrong here on a 20+ year old PC, mostly useless junk now, seen in Museums.XP does not run here it is too old.the Coin cell inside is dead, not one ever lasted 20 years. sorry.he BIOS must be reset.and then boot order set to CD first. so it can boot the CD, XPcons' max.too oldno pci-e slotsno sata portsno support at all.HDD will be dead 20" years old IDE (PATA) or missing.chips that do not have support for xp up.worst off all is that CS code meanseMachines etower 333CS Computer with Cyrix M II-333 MMX Processor ,soon owned by NSC and then dead VIA in asia. Cyrix is dead now. zero EOL support. let it stay dead.or sell it for just the rare cpu, super hard to find one so keep it 10 more years or sell it as collectable.

You'll need to buy & install a network-card to add Ethernet networking to the computer.
Then, use an 8-wire Ethernet-cable to connect to your router.

In short. NO
this pc has a maximum memory capacity of 256mb.
With the maximum memory installed and a bigger hard drive it would run with windows xp, but would be very slow, but with 2nd user pc so cheap you could buy a cheap tower/screen/kb and mouse very cheap.
check ebay

You set drive letters in computer management > disk management.
It can have an E: drive if you want...

Have a AMD K6-2 500 clocked to 550 Mhz reliably
32 Meg Video card
512 Meg memory
Has updated FSB to 100 Mhz (not 66)
Dual HD
Dual CD-ROM drives
Hows this for an upgrade?
I'll sell it for $30 plus shipping

Dear crab1,

check wether the RAM working properly or not because if RAM have some problem it might be possible that system get boot but u will not get the display. then check after booting is u r monitor power led gets red or green if it is green light then check u r monitor display property brightness, contrast etc. if u getting the red light it means the problem with u r RAM or Hard Disk.

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Bittu_8

when you cleaned the HD you did eraser some of the software that was on the hardrive that is need to do the Quick restore and know the only way to fix this is to installe a new copy of windows and look up the drivers for the motherboard.

 

 

Check your cable connections.

You can go to BIOS setup and check that CD drive is recognize there or not, If not then there must be some problem with CD Drive or connectivity of CD drive with computer, If it is showing there then you can follow this tutorial and change with the registry.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

To reset bios, turn computer off and remove side cover, remove coin battery from motherboard and jump appropriate pins on the motherboard to clear cmos. These pins can be found in the owners manual online at the E-machines website.

If you are unsure you can just load default settings

likely there is a Power Supply Unit problem. They usually fail w/o warning.

to hook the computer to the tv you do not need a disk ..basically you need to have a pretty good video card on computer so that it will have a hdmi video out ..and this way it will work on hdmi ..or if it has a tv slot ..use it ..and select the proper input on the tv ..If there is no image on the tv ...you have to go to the video settings ..and select to enable the secondary monitor or tv out..for some computers you can do this by pressing Fn and F5 or F4 or F7 ..(or ctrl = f....) ..and will enable it auto ..but ..it is best to make sure you have teh correct driver for the video card ..and after the connection being made with the cable ..and select the correct entry in the tv ...just go to the video card settings ..or click right on desktop ..and select properties and than display settings ..or ..settings ..and on the page where it shows the monitors..click on the secondary and enable it ..and select the way it will work ..(clone or extend display ..second one will make the monitor an extension and you can select different tasks for the space )

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.