Emachines 1900+ gets power to the monitor and computer but wont boot

Oct 18, 2008

-   I've got the same problem, though it's on an eMachines T6534 w/ onboard Nvidia GeForce 6100 chipset (aka graphics card).

I have tried: using a different monitor that I know for sure works, used a PCI display card from another working PC, pushed lightly on all MoBo chips to seat them properly (all that I could find, pretty sure I got them all), and switched the only RAM card to another available slot (there's 4 in total). During the seating process, the only PCI Modem card present was slightly out of it's socket when I had pushed down, so now it's in place.

Thinking the problem was solved, I reconnected everything and actually did manage to get the display to show for a few seconds. It appears to have hung where it shows the giant lowercase 'e'. On that same screen, were two options, one for F2 and the other for F10, can't remember what they were for though. I tried both keys, and nothing happens, the CAPS lock on the keyboard didn't show up, so I'm not sure if the keyboard doesn't work with that PC or if it just froze up. I know for sure the mouse and keyboard work.

So thinking the display would work by shutting down with the button held in and turning it back on, when it turns back on, nothing shows anymore! Since I have tried a different video source, it could be just be the MoBo.

Is it possible that the drivers were messed with? Before attempting anything video-related, I had taken out the HDD, put it into my external encloser and connected it via USB to scan both partitions for any viruses/spyware. Three were found on the main partition, while 1 was found on the 2nd (recovery partition). The 3 viruses, were actually Trojans. While this is a spur of the moment theory, it could be that while one or more of the Trojan's payload were Backdoors, allowing the attacker to mess with the display drivers. Though it seems unlikely, seeing as the amount of access an attacker can have with a Backdoor, not all attackers are the same, they each have different plans.

One more thing to add to this lengthy post, the names of the Trojans (scanned with ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7.0.483.000):
Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimod.n
Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimod.n
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.aidz

Any help is appreciated, thank you :D
-   Megafloat