Process of elimination is pretty much the only way to figure out what ails it. The way to determine this is to sub the PSU. You should be able to boot to BIOS, just to see if the hardware is being recognized properly, but any available settings would be severely limited.Ī bad PSU is a distinct possibility, as a bad board. If I were to restore my Emachines, I wouldn't even have to reactivate Windows. OEM boards are ordered and built specifically configured for the hardware as shipped. As I said, most, if not all of those boards are locked, and will not accept a standard Windows boot disc, you must restore the system from the recovery discs that come with the machine. Besides, boot order would be a BIOS setting, not an update. I only mentioned it as a more, (much more) remote possibility. It does stand to reason that if the system is still in factory configuration, there is no need whatsoever for an "update". The only problem with the BIOS could be boot order, That wouldn't be an update issue. If you pull out the ram and try to turn it on it'll beep angrily at you, which is the only way I know to test if a mother board's lost to us. The bios shows the drives as being read (the drives it says it can't find). ![]() I can access the bios fine, I can get it to POST the first stage but no more. I see no bulging capacitors or burn marks on the mobo that would suggest a burn out. I reset the cmos clear jumper on the mobo hoping maybe that would do something, no success. I cross checked other sticks of ram, no go. I replaced the IDE cables just for kicks, still won't boot any hardrive. I thought maybe it was the motherboard and I replaced the battery on the mobo just for laughs. When the install finished it rebooted, didn't find the drive and started the cd back again. I then reformatted the drive using an external and went through the win xp install disc process. It didn't, but I attributed that to the Dell not having the linux kernel that Ubuntu operates off of (so I'm told). I then checked a drive a friend had given me with a copy of ubuntu on it, I booted it on the dell to see if it would work. I went on to check 4 different hard drives I had laying around, all gave some various form of being unable to boot. It said everything was fine and booted to XP just as well. Upon plugging the Dell HD back into the dell and booting I was treated to a dskchk /f automatically through win xp's startup. I snagged half a picture of the blue screen using my camera phone and it revealed that it was an dskchk / f error message, which I thought was odd since the Dell HD disk that was doing this was damn near new. The hardrive on the dell would not boot on the emachine: it would give a message asking me if I wanted to start windows in safe mode, regular, ect and upon selecting a prompt, it would flash a blue screen faster than could be read and reboot and go back into boot loop with the 'how do you want to startup?' message. Through process of elimination I found that the cpu from the dell would not even boot, whereas the orginal emachine cpu worked in both systems. Both are IDE drives so I though maybe I should take the Dell's cpu and put it into the Emachine, and also try the Dell HD in the emachine. So with the emachine processor and ram everything boots fine on a hardrive I had originally in the Dell. I also put the emachine's ram into the dell. To process of eliminate that I remove the emachine's processor and plug it into a dell optiplex, which I know works fine because it's what I generally use to cross check parts. So I'm thinking it must be the motherboard. Upon reboot it just flashes the white underscore on the black background. Plug in the HD.nothin, says there's a 'disk 01 not found' type of error. So my initial thought is 'oh well it's the HD' so I order a new hd. Emachine logo -> black screen->pause->emachine logo wash rinse repeat. ![]() At that point I restart it, and am met with a boot loop. I boot it up, it boots win XP and has a few pop ups, takes about 20 minutes to get beyond the first start up pop up on the win desktop. The comp was handed to me, saying it was not working properly, pretty vague I know. Here's my general question and justification for asking it: (I think I just heard a few groans upon reading 'emachine')
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