Just saw you at the top of the list so i thought i would ask:

1) Right-click on Start

2) Left-click on Properties in the drop down list.

3) Left-click on the Start Menu tab. (Unless it automatically opens to the Start Menu tab)

4) Make sure there is a Green dot in the small circle, to the left of Start menu. If not left-click in the small circle to the left of Start menu.

Go below to the right, and click on Apply.
Now go below to the left, and click on OK.

Regards,
joecoolvette

Hi Nicki,
Sorry, this really sounds bad, it would seem that the hard drive is shot from your description. The data may or may not be recoverable. If you get a new drive, you will have to partition it first, then set it as your Master drive, then set the old one as a slave, install your operating system onto the master drive and try to recover the information on the old drive after you have that done. If you cannot successfully recover the information that way, you most likely won't be able to get it at all unless you backed it up onto a flash or cds or dvds.
Sorry for the news but that is what it sounds like
Joe

I generally go to Ebay when I need to replace a part or find 'hard to find' items. You can find monitor stands on ebay for a reasonable price. You just have to make sure that the stand will work with your emachines monitor. All you have to do is look at the back to see how the stand attaches to the monitor and look for the same mount type. Below is a link to an ebay listing for 15 inch monitor stands.

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=15+LCD+monitor+stands&_sacat=0&_odkw=emachines+E15+monitor&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313


You can also contact ebay by chat by following this link and ask if they have stands available for your monitor. There are none listed on the emachines site, but that does not mean that they are not available. The link to the Emachines contact page is:

http://www.emachines.com/corporate/contacts.html

These are two suggestions for finding a replacement monitor base or stand. I hope that you will be able to located the proper stand from these resources.

If I can be of further assistance to you, please let me know.

Brian

it will be next to ur power led or u will find hdd led wrritten on the motherboard

YOUR PSU (POWER SUPPLY UNIT) MAYBE THE CULPRIT. If the power to your cable which fits the computer is ok, then the supply unit is usually at fault. You can buy these pretty cheaply on ebay and they are very easy to fit, or if you are not into that find a mate who can! beleive me... its pretty easy.

1. The emachines W3503 has an integrated ATI Radeon™ X300 based graphics card. It has also a PCI Express (PCIe x16) slot available.

2. The emachines W3052 has a NVIDIA® GeForce®4™ MX graphics card. I'm not sure whether it is integrated or not, but I'm sure that if it is not, it will be an AGP graphics card. Since The emachines W3503 has a PCI Express (PCIe x16) slot available for installing a graphics card, the swapping of graphics cards between the 2 machines is not possible since they support different types of graphics cards.

i had the same problem so i just bought a new computer not to even try to waste any money on my e machine due to the fact that is was 5 years old

yes that is true if you look at your wires ahnd you will see that one says hdd and one says spkr and so on now look closley at the board and you will see the same thing on the moboard if you are not abloe to read it you should be able to go to the manufacture of the board and there is a section for online manuals that u can download ok i hope this helps out a little bit please keep me posted ok this i can help you out morte if you need ok best reggards mike

Dear zmatt,

Looks like the power outlet or UPS may be at fault. Try a different outlet. That's all I can thik of.

Good luck!

if you want better video performance(like for games, etc) you'll want to consider a higher quality video option. nvidia is goodd.