Emachine will not boot up. The fan and lights come on but thats it. In the recent past its taken several attempts to successfully boot. No new software or haedware added. The on button now will not turn the pc off. I tried the cmos battery reset with no results.

upon turning on keep hitting f8 repeatedly to get to the bios menu and check your boot sequence

check FAN on CPU. Check also the radiator on the CPU. If you can - remove CPU and check the paste between the CPU and radiator - apply new paste, assemble back the CPU and try again.

Your system was unabled to boot,there must be a problem in your motherboard.

You can try to boot up in safe mode hitting F8 while computer is booting up after it is in safe mode go to control panel and then go to add and remove progams find the last update you install and remove it. If that is a no go you will have to restore to orginal with disc that came with emachine

check all your ground screws on the motherboard. If that doesn't work try booting it up with out the hard drive. if that doesn't work, pop out the BIOS battery and unplug your computer, let it sit for about a min. and put the battery back in and restart.

Did you check the CMOS battery and the CPU fan. Those are two things that if aren't working the way they should be, then some computers will not boot up. Try this first then post a response if you still can't get it working.

Remove and reinstall memory.

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A C100 error is a registry error. I suggest that U format the drive and reinstall the 98SE. There are programs (bought) available that may fix this problem, but another perferred choice would be to purchase a XP operating system. Boot up on the XP cd and replace the 98SE with the XP. It's better, faster, prettier and more reliable.