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post #1 of 10
11/30/07 at 2:02pm
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My friends mom's computer died on her. She took it to the computer Dr and they said it would cost 299 to replace the motherboard. I found her the same motherboard online for 99 and replaced it for her. Once I reconnected everything I tried to boot it up. It tried to cycle on and the fans would begin to spin. However after a second or two it would just stop. I have unplugged and replugged everything. I took out the 600 watt power supply from my rig and tried and and nothing helped.

Hopefully someone can think of something to help me. It is an emachine T6536. I hate to see her mom spend more money to buy a new PC so if anyone has any hints, tips or advice please pass it my way. Thanks again
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post #2 of 10
11/30/07 at 2:33pm
Are you positive everything is plugged in, CPU power plug, Cpu Fan, CMOS jumper set to default settings and so on?

Any beeps, does it boot to bios screen?
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post #3 of 10
11/30/07 at 5:13pm
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Yeah everything was plugged in. I even had one of my friends who works at the local computer repair center stop by to make sure I had everything correct. The Jumpers are set exactly the same way the burned out boards was and I get no beeps or BIOS screen.. thanks
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post #4 of 10
11/30/07 at 9:59pm
check the CPU power plug, I know I forgot to plug that in and you won't get a beep or nothing...Pictures would surely help on these fix it posts....Also 299 woulda bought you a new machine LOL.

Also how do you know the motherboard was bad in the first place???? What was the problem before you replaced the mobo?
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post #5 of 10
11/30/07 at 11:01pm
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Originally Posted by Rockinfella2k View Post
Also how do you know the motherboard was bad in the first place???? What was the problem before you replaced the mobo?
That's what I'm wondering. Sounds like for $200 more dollars, you wouldn't of had to worry about this problem. It would have been theres.
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post #6 of 10
12/1/07 at 12:34am
BIOS isn't executing then--fans spin etc. implies that either the South Bridge is starting to come up (ODM market) or an SIO chip is starting the power-up cycle. Why it dies before/as the cpu comes up...well, that could be a number of problems.

Have you tried another CPU in that mobo?
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post #7 of 10
12/1/07 at 3:27am
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havent yet. I will take the fx-60 out of my rig tomorrow and see what happens. So I will get back to you on that
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post #8 of 10
12/1/07 at 10:21pm
If the CPU swap does nothing try memory
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post #9 of 10
12/3/07 at 12:21am
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swapped cpu's with the one in my rig and it fired right up. Now the question is if the old board was bad or the computer place just misdiagnosed it. Thanks galad for the idea to swap CPU's.
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post #10 of 10
2/21/08 at 4:53pm
Bet the old board was fine and that it's just a dead CPU....

Which means the problem has nothing to do with the eMachine being crappy.
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