EMachine problem.. ?

Question

i went to turn it on the other day and all i heard was the fan running,and it hadn't been turned on in a few days, plus when I first got it we got a better power supply, so I don't think that's it, still don't know if that's the problem or not.

Answer 1

im not a genius at this but I searched for answers for you

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    Emachines computers have el-cheapo power supplies that tend to fail, sometimes slowly, sometimes suddenly. When they fail, they are known to be more likely to damage other things connected to the mboard sometimes than other brands - even if you replace the PS with a good PS the computer may still not work.

    Emachines computer #1 probably has a dead PS and something else is damaged; Emachines computer #2 probably has a faulty PS.

    There is probably nothing wrong with your hard drive. If you connect to a computer other than those 2, it will probably work fine, but if you connect as the master on the primary IDE you may have to run an XP Repair Setup in order to accomodate Windows to the change in hardware (that will not delete the data already on the drive). If you just want to rescue the data from it, connect the drive as anything but master on the primary IDE.

    Also see this previous post about the same problem:

    http://www.computing.net/hardware/w...

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    Check your PS.

    See response 4 in this:

    http://www.computing.net/answers/hardwar...

    Your hard drive is probably ok, but here's how to check your hard drive.

    See the latter part of response 1 in this:

    http://www.computing.net/answers/windows...

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Source - http://www.computing.net/answers/hardwar...

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Unplug the power supply for a few minutes...then put back and try. If that doesn't do it, then power supply is gone, and that is a common eMachine problem incidentally. Just hope it didn't take the board with it, as they often do,

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I'd disconnect everything not necessay and try to start it.

If that fails, I'd pull the motherboard out of the case and hook the BARE basics up and test it that way.

If you have tried two cpus, then the motherboard would be suspect.

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Yes unfortunately eMachines do just that. They blow motherboard when psu blows. It's because they use such c**p for psu unfortunately.

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Source - http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/57501...

Go here for full discussion

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heres another link i was about to look at

http://www.fixya.com/support/t508509-t26...

i need to go, im at work and its home time, hope this helped

for more links just type "emachine doesn't turn on" in google search