We have a emachine w2060 and my mother unhooked 3 small cords looking for a power problem the small green and white the small red and white and the small black and white? i dont know where they belong so that we can have power

The Green is ground I would hook it up to the dryer metal frame ,with your other green wire,do not leave it unhooked

The wires should be labeled HDD,POWER, and i think RESET or somthing, just look on the motherboard within cord reach and you should see all three labeled on the motherboard all grouped together.

I've built a PC myself, each connector had text on it to say what it was and one arrow on it in relief, don't know wether that indicated plus or minus anymore.
Anyway, I recommend you just plug them in, and try to boot the PC. If it doesn't boot, switch the Power SW connector around, then it should boot. Do the same with the LED connectors, and it should work just fine!

Good luck,
Yannick.

Hi Joe,

Could be one of several things:

1) Monitor cable connection loose.
2) Video card (if you have one) not seated, or bad.
3) RAM module not seated, bad, or wrong kind. (If you have not messed with the RAM, probably not one of these.)
4) If your video is integrated into the motherboard (no video card) your motherboard may be bad. Installing a separate card could correct this.
5) Bad monitor.

Have you made any changes to your system when this happened?

Try to connect another monitor/cable to your computer and try your monitor on a friend's computer to see if it works.

Comment back with any updates.

Thanks for using Fixya.

on the back of the tower, there are 3 jacks colored Red Green and Blue, the speakers plug into the Green Jack

WhoDoctorK9 is right. You'll need the model number of the pc to pull up any schematics of the board. This is, however, how you solve this problem. Just google your model number and try to find a schematic of the board.

If you can't find the schematic, the board should be marked with some sort of 'pwr' blah blah white lettering. It's hit & miss, but you can find the connection without visual aid by dimensions of the plugs and the obscure little identifiers on the board itself.

Good luck and may the force be with you. :P

check on the motherboard there should be a small prints on it near control panel.

look on the motherboard where all the cables are plugged in, It should list on the board in small letters what plugs in there. whats written on top goes on the top pins & bottom list should be the bottom pins.

Hi

if you look closely to the board you will see white text that explains what two pins are for what, also if you can provide me with the model of the motherboard, the connections are documented in the user manual,

its a emachine.. what model? you can also look at the motherboard and find the white text that has the model details post everything you find if your not sure. (most likely between the processor and memory or within that area, and in most cases between the pci slots)

Ok for a start the power switch is not green and white that is the power led, you need to look for a red and black wire normally marked on the connector and motherboard as pwrsw or pswitch.
if you believe it to be the switch unplug the connector and jump the connection on the motherboard using the reset switch or a jumper, or not recommended but have done this myself many times using a flat blade screw driver very carefully and touch the 2 pins to complete the circuit.
if it doesnt power on then its more than likely it is the power supply but the motherboard being faulty could also cause this to happen.
the problem i have found with emachines is that its difficult to get replacement power supplys