EMachine T3656 won't recognize the network

If the hard drive failed you will first need to replace it with a working hard drive. One that is done, power on the computer with the recovery disc is the drive and enter setup. It should say something like press F9 or F10 for Setup. Look through the menus for "Boot Order", make sure your CD/DVD drive is above hard drive. Save the changes and reboot, you should get a message "Press any key to boot to disc" or something similar, do so, and follow the prompts to re-install windows.

I disable the lan boot w/no pxe support in the bios and put in a new hard drive 30 gig and it is great now.

I believe the hard drive went bad and it then tried to load an os from a previous network, which caused the PXE error. The true culprit was the bad hard drive.

This indicates you have no resident restore partition on your hard disk drive. The easiest way is to put your Windows OS CD in the PC and startup. It should ask if you want to start from CD. Say yes and follow the instructions. You may need to press F2 or 10 to change the bootup sequence to start from the CD if it doen not do it automatically.
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Download the Chipset driver on eMachines Website.

eMachines T3656 Driver Download

Select Product Family: Desktop
Select product Line: T Series
Select Product: T3656
Operating System: Select the version of your OS
Click on the Driver Tab
Download and Install the Chipset Driver

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if the network card in onboard or on pci slots then install the appropriate driver

does ur monitor show any thing ? or is it blank/dark...?
can u boot and c the logon screen ?

Turn off computer
open the case
either remove old memory card and install new one in its place
or
install memory card in empty slot
turn on computer
update bios when asked if hardware update is expected.

That is it!
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stan Skaggs

that shows that it is not compatable with the settings of the PC.

If this is an IDE drive, you will have to make sure the jumper on the end of the "new" drive is on "Slave".

IDE drives have a cable about 2 inches wide. This is probably what you have. The above link is for IDE drives.

Here is a link to help out: http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/install-hard-drive.htm

(SATA drives have cables about 1/2 inch wide. You shouldn't have to worry about jumpers with them.)

Here is a youtube video that may help also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEga6ga5hM

Once the computer recognizes the drive, you can format it by double-clicking "My Computer" on your desktop. Right click on the icon for the new drive and select "Format..."

this sounds like a faults network module on your motherboard you should take it back to your place of purchase a get a waranty job or a exchange