LOOK HERE FIRST!!!same deal, went off one day to never reboot. bought a new motherboard after testing everything else and still no boot. STOP DOING THIS!!! I needed to test the ram first, by chance I put only one ram card in on the second board, it fired up!! I put the second card in, dead again even with the card back out. NOW, who knows the location of the problem now? What tiny fuse or circuit is blown with bad ram, got 3 boards to fix.

emachines t3958, I had a ram card go bad and went through a couple of motherboards. Now I know which ram is bad but I still have two boards that are powering the green standby light but wont boot, much like the other folks who owned one. I ask for a way to find the fuse or circuit that would be affected by a bad ram card and got a RTC BIOS reset, tried it, need more in put help please!~!! emachines t3958, I had a ram card go bad and went through a couple of motherboards. Now I know which ram is bad but I still have two boards that are powering the green standby light but wont boot, much like the other folks who owned one. I ask for a way to find the fuse or circuit that would be affected by a bad ram card and got a RTC BIOS reset, tried it, need more in put help please!~!!

I had the original emachines t3958 that stopped working, I tested the power supply, hdd and cards on.the mobo, I decided that I needed a new mobo. I bought the new mobo and while I was putting the box back together one peiece at a time, I powered it on with each item I placed back on the board. One of my 512 ram cards was bad. The mobo fired up with each item till that card. I went to the local computer shop and they confirmed the card bad. Now that I know why my mobo wont boot, what do I do to resurect the two that I have?? The replacement costs 80 bucks and nothing really was eveident i.e. smoke, clicks or pops. It simply would not boot with that card in, or after I had taken it back out for that matter. I did the drain and battery removal, help.

With me now??

I had the original emachines t3958 that stopped working, I tested the power supply, hdd and cards on.the mobo, I decided that I needed a new mobo. I bought the new mobo and while I was putting the box back together one peiece at a time, I powered it on with each item I placed back on the board. One of my 512 ram cards was bad. The mobo fired up with each item till that card. I went to the local computer shop and they confirmed the card bad. Now that I know why my mobo wont boot, what do I do to resurect the two that I have?? The replacement costs 80 bucks and nothing really was eveident i.e. smoke, clicks or pops. It simply would not boot with that card in, or after I had taken it back out for that matter. I did the drain and battery removal, help.

With me now??