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Hello. My sister owns an eMachine w3644.For the last couple of months it has worked more than well to fit the basic functions and all with ease.However, today she tried to turn it on, but the PC wouldn't power up.I took a look into it, but found nothing out of place. I'm no savvy, so I didn't mess around with the power supply or mother board (been reading it's a common issue).What happens with the PC is that even when it is plugged in correctly, after pressing the power button nothing happens at all.The only reaction there is is when I plug it in the leds on the keyboard flash, but nothing more.Hope anyone can give any insight on this, thanks beforehand.
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that is a very old mobo, emachines is owned by acer.com now.
forget booting that last and means to an OS, like XP?
this PC is 14 years old. now and the coin cell battery is dead,located just below x16 PCI-e slot. flatsocket
first is that and next is get you monitor working with BIOS pages DEL key is the hot key to BIOS.
booting is last,(the OS boots last)
power is first and all fans working
PSU 24pin and that 4 pin power jack to CPU jack must be both connected.
the jumper (many) on the mobo must be set correctly the manual is found googled.
Use the VGA port on the MOBO rear.
the PC power lamp must glow turned on at power switch.
the fans must blow. all . must.
then the BIOS flash screen shows next and then POST error, if any
and list BIOS boot order set to HDD0 first. top of list , if the HDD is good it boots 14 year old OS, that is fully infected as all are XP.
got DDr2 RAM?
the goal is get bios working first and no coin cell lasted 14 years not one, sorry, 7 is spec max
1/2 that parked in a box the attic,
In BIOS new coin set time and date, and boot order. if it will not boot.
hello and good morning.
emachines are old and now owned by acer.com (gateway,etc)
they OWN many old names.
you are running XP right? the last man on earth to do so?
XP is a virus magnet and doomed, it is time to upgrade.
this PC is 2007 made. so is 12 years old, today..
the RTC coin cell battery will be no good now, replace it for $2
then reset BIOS inside BIOS screen " set default"
then test the HDD, to be sure it is ok, if not? then reloading any OS of any kinds is not going to work with any bad HDD.
Last, reload a new OS.
there are the steps. and can be expensive, spent on any PC this old with zero street value. ($0 if broken a it is)
You can plugin all the wires according to color codes and to it's designated ports.
Please remember that all wires/plugs will not fit on to another port. There's only one port for each wire except for the power cable of your monitor. The power cable of your monitor can be connected on the power supply of your CPU(which is at the back & upper part) but other than the power cable of your monitor, all the other wires only have one port available for them at the back of your tower.
Hope you understand what I am trying to say.... Regards...
These cables are attached in the lower right corner of the motherboard. There are two rows of pins there. Probably 10 pins in all. They should be marked with letters something like hdled (hard drive LED), pwr (power light) pwr sw (power switch) spk (speaker) etc. Anyway, if you can't find markings, hooking the little plugs up to sets of the pins one plug at a time will tell you which works.You can't hurt anything by trying various combinations
Memory problem Try reseating the Ram modules on the motherboard, if 2 inserted, replace one at a time and test in each slot. Check both modules are running at the same speed (eg: PC3200 / DDR 400) Not uncommon for memory modules to fail. If you get it back running again, download memtest and run it for an hour to see if it flags up Ram issues
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