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5/26/06 at 8:53pm
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I recently purchased a used but working emac 6809 mobo and 3400+ amd 64 chip from ebay. My old mobo was fried so i need to get something to replace it. Along with the chip and motherboard i also recieved 512 megs of ram.
I basically recieved the whole bottom of the laptop

I installed the keyboard and monitor the same way i removed it from my old machine but it will not boot up

I swapped over my old dvdr and my old battery as well which i believe are still in good working order

FYI my old system was a 7210gx gateway

Does anyone have any ideas what i could be doing wrong?

I have 2 harddrives that i tested and neither made it boot

Is the power cord wrong becuase i went from gateway to emachines?
The power led does not come on at all when i plug it in

If the battery is no good would it still work on the cord?

Thanks for any input

-Chris
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post #2 of 4
5/26/06 at 11:05pm
Are you sure you set the ribbon for the power switch on right? Does it power on at all, does the light in the front come on with you insert the ac adapter. Even if the battery is dead, it will still run on the power cord.

The AC Adapter is the same for the emachines m6000 series and the gateway 7000 series.

If the power LED in the front doesn't turn on, it means its probably the motherboard, the connector for the motherboard and power adapter, or the ac adapter itself.
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post #3 of 4
5/26/06 at 11:49pm
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Originally Posted by Spinitch
Are you sure you set the ribbon for the power switch on right? Does it power on at all, does the light in the front come on with you insert the ac adapter. Even if the battery is dead, it will still run on the power cord.

The AC Adapter is the same for the emachines m6000 series and the gateway 7000 series.

If the power LED in the front doesn't turn on, it means its probably the motherboard, the connector for the motherboard and power adapter, or the ac adapter itself.

I think i set the ribbon the correct way. I stuck it in the same way it faces so that when the power button goes back in place the ribbon is not twisted or anything. I just stuck it in the ribbon clamp down and then i closed it.

It does not power on at all. No leds nothing.

The power adapter is good i just tested it last week using another computer and it worked fine

The guy i bought this off of insists that it worked when he send it but you should have seen how he packaged it. It was the whole bottom of the laptop minus the drives in a box full of penuts. I thought he would at least have it in a static free bag or something like that. This guy sells alot of laptop parts on ebay and he had a good review rating.

all i did was hook my lcd, battery, dvdr and harddrive up to what he send me and all of those where fairly easy to do.

i hooked the monitor up to the same place it was at on my old one and i grounded it to the same screw.

Thanks for the reply.

This whole project seems like one huge mess.

Thanks.
-Chris
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post #4 of 4
5/27/06 at 3:43am
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Originally Posted by Spinitch
... If the power LED in the front doesn't turn on, it means its probably the motherboard, the connector for the motherboard and power adapter, or the ac adapter itself.
Chris - with what u have done and tested - the mobo seems to be the "bad" candidate. u should have at least a return/replacement even in a short timeframe. i would definitively try to return it for a replacement with a detailed description of what u have performed and even pictures, if u have them frustrating sometimes to play a builder, but it is the fun of it all. as long as u r not losing in the $ area, ur time will be well invested - my 2 cents worth :-) cheers ...
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