EMachines T1840 mother board crash

Hello, Sounds like you don't have the right power supply, only and emachine power supply from emachines will work.

hi

there can be a few reasons

the motherboard can be faulty

or the hard drive could be faulty


to test if its the mother board or hard drive attach another hard drive and re-install if it works its the hard drive if it wont or cant install its the mother board


cheers

It is possible that the hard drive has crashed. If the power supply starts up but nothing else then it is either the mother board or the hard drive. If you take off the case and the CPU fan is spinning, then it is likely the hard drive. Your best bet is to take it into a shop if you are not comfortable with swapping out the hard drive.

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By nothing else, from a technical standpoint this would mean literally nothing, the CPU fan, power supply fan, aux fan, disk drive not spinning up, etc. My experience with EMachines is their motherboards aint the best, have been known to take out hard drives and other peripherals to the mother board. If you are technically inclined the first thing to do is to bare out the system, Power Supply attached to the Mother Board w/ Cpu Monitor and Keyboard no Hard Drive and no Non esential boards installed, very carefully remove the memory and start it up all should be fine except it should give you a long beep from the PC Speaker indicating the Mother Board is aware there is no memory installed if it will not do this most basic of tests this is not good. If it does give you a health beep continue to install one item at a time, first the memory, the display should, if working, tell you there is a boot failure, of course, the hard drive is not connected, do so and keep on testing. Without knowing what type of mother board you have, most likely an AT with integrated peripherials the process to determine exactly what the problem is would take hands on trouble shooting. If you dont get the beep indicating the mother board cant determine if memory is installed and truley nothing else is on it is more likely the mother board. There are several good ones online that will fit your case if you want to go this route. Or is it time to upgrade ?

You can replace it with a larger one, just make sure you buy the proper hard drive. If its and IDE hard drive, buy and IDE hard drive, if its an SATA Hard drive, buy an SATA Hard drive. also make sure after you install the new hard drive that you use the operating system cd to format the drive and to install the operating system.

Hello,

If it doesn't show a HD in bios, that means that either the HD isn't connected properly ie you have 2 devices set as slave or master on same ide cable and it cant detect the HD. Try temporarily disconnecting the CDroms or other devices that may be conflicting and see if that helps.

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Thanks

check the ram and hard drives.check if the os properly installed.u

get simple windows xp you just have to format deep with emachines as ntfs ive ran windows complete programs on emachines with out a problem and created straight recovery disk simple to be ran in windows safemode
now your hard drive
depending on which brand hard drive you have there is a couple out there that have data compression problems over 80 gig these harddrives over 80 gig have a crash ratio of 8 to 1 sea gate about 2 years ago had this problem dont know if they corrected it yet
quite possible your hard drive did not die at all but the power supply just didnt have the juice to push it check hdd by another source of power

Hello,

when all some other parts are good maybe you can replace the the mother board and the power supply.

you should find motherboard replacement that will fit to your processor and Memory.
if the memory , processor, hard drive are good, then you can contact your vendor if the have replacement(mother board) and power supply.

may this help, melnavz

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