My old emachine was turned off the wrong way and will not boot.What can I do?

get hold of a HIRENS boot cd this will have the utility to
install the MBR(master boot reecord you need to start
your machine Dave

Sounds like a bad motherboard. It's getting power and turning on the fans and everything, except booting it up. Yeah, sure sounds like a bad MB. How old is the pc? You have to be careful with Emachines. They are built cheap and break often.

When this happened was the laptop overly hot? If the laptop's head got too high it could have shutdown to protect itself. It wouldn't boot until the heat had disparate. Sit you laptop aside for about 30 minutes and see if it will boot then. If it does you might want to check out a cool mat.


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Very sorry about your son.

If you can't find the real problem, you can always put that hard drive into another PC to get the files. If so, be sure to looking to a potential "jumper" setting on that drive for it to be recognized.

If you just did a memory upgrade then the new chip is either not seated properly or the wrong type or even bad. Since it won't boot the problem is the ram in memory slot one. You need to rock it a bit to make sure it is seated before snapping it in. If it is the wrong speed or type you need to exchange it. It can also be bad but that usually means a counterfeit these days or you gave it a static shock and burned it out..

If you put your old ram back in you should be able to work again until you get the ram replaced.

it looks like your hard drive may have gone bad.

Yes. Got RAM? The heatsink fan? How about a video card, and all the 12V (4 to 6 pin) connectors? All plugged in suitably?

make sure to boot from the cd by when you turn the computer on press ESC key or the f1, f2 or f12 key one of those will you boot from the CD

I need to know how many time it beeps. THat actually tells you what is wrong. This site tells you what to listen for. Let me know if you need any interpretation

Go inside to your BIOS menu then set the BOOT sequence to CD as the first boot so when your PC with the operating system installation disk inside it will load the installation wizard.
Good luck hope that helps........