Dell 518 crashed after power outage

Please clarify. Did the download cause the crash or an attempted installation? What is the nature of the crash? Failure to boot? You have a bootable flashdrive with a Windows 8.1 system on it and you want to make that a temporary boot device. Dell does not appear to make an XPS 110 - http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19/Products/laptop/xps_laptop

whoa are you serious the battery is for the clock on low power settings. you going to need replacement on the power supply brick sounds like it had a over charge and some components are burnt resulting in lower power setting to that brick I believe they run about $39.00 for a new brick get a genuine Dell 300w Power PSU Power brick dell support to would be helpful

Your computer has failed the Power On Self Test.

Be sure to check all external connections as well as the connections within the computer chassis. Clean the Gold fingered connections of the RAM modules and Graphics card with tissue paper.

Also go through my published guide entitled, My Computer is not turning on!!! Is it dead!!! No POST!!! for additional help and information.

You may need to clear the BIOS/CMOS.

Take care!
damnor01

the power outages may have destroyed a part in the pc or corrupted somthing on the hard drive....try to turn it off before windows starts booting if it shuts down fine its your hard drive which means you may need to reinstall windows

Sounds like the power surge possible fried your hard drive. If you have access to another hard drive, try loading Windows on it. That message only pops up when it's unable to boot from the drive it normally boots from.

At boot up press F8 and from the B&W menu select Last Good Boot up or words to that effects. This will restore your laptop to the last good boot up date.

Else from the B&W menu select the Safe Mode.

Remove the RAM, take it to a computer store, and purchase a similar one.

Check to a different outlet
does it hit the BIOS screen? if blank, and no power
most likely its your power supply. if you post this question again you should add a little more details about the issues

Hello,

The problem is with the corrupted boot files .In my opinion you have one solution
Steps for solution

1. Download an operating system called ' Linux mint ' which can be installed in the pen drive having minimum 4 gb capacity . Using this operating system you can access the computer .

2. Copy the file and folders to an external storage device (external hard disk, pen drive etc..)

3. Reinstall the operating system ( XP,Vista ,Window 7,Ubuntu etc )

Hope you be successful

Emachines are notorious for motherboards and power supplies frying after a power outage. Why? Even after 10 years of working on desktops from all manufacturers... this eludes me.

1)The power switching chip or chipset usually goes first. My best guess is be casue the power supplies in these desktops are VERY inexpensive. IT's amazing if they last longer than 1 year.

Replace power supply.. if doesn't boot still... replace motherboard.

2) If i'm waaay off and you get a boot screen or emachine logo.. but no windows logo... then hard drive crashed or file system got shot...

Replace hard disk and reinstall windows.. contact data recovery specialist. DYI data recovery .. causes more data loss... speaking from experience.