Recently, my 3-4 yr old emachine motherboard went bad. Symptom was "apparent" spontaneous sleep mode that required unplug before it would restart. When I took off the case side and put a big fan blowing in room air, the machine would run OK for many hours: thermal problem confirmed. I found a "used" motherboard on the net ($80 delivered) and that was the fix.
But I got impatient during troubleshooting and bought a new cheap Dell dual core for $350 which is VERY much faster. So the repaired emachine is now my spare. The main downside was transitioning from the windows 2000 interface to the Windows 7 interface (classic view helped). Also some old 16 bit software won't run on the 64 bit W7. Otherwise, W7 looks like an improvement even if this old dog had to learn some new tricks. So, IMO you probably have a bad motherboard, fixable for about $100. On the other hand, a new machine may be a better plan, particularly if it's your main workstation. But first be sure your software will run on the new OS. Scott -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 9:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT computer still shuts down I hate to stick a new board in it and it still does it but its just about got to be something on the board. Rich Thomas wrote: > It is probably the mobo going flaky. You can get a new mobo/processor > cheap, with some memory, maybe a new id card, and just use the old box > and drives. Take about 30 min to change it out. Microcenter and > Newegg have some package deals usually. Then you'll have a new > machine that should work OK. > > --R > > On 8/15/11 9:31 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >> I thought yesterday the problem was with the XP drive, with it >> unplugged the vista drive fired up normally. I did have it do the >> shut down in the middle of booting once after that. This morning it >> started doing it again. It would not boot at all, would just shut >> off. Tried starting in in safe mode with networking, same thing, >> tried just plain safe mode, same thing. Tried booting with last >> known good configuration, it started normally. WTF? I am not sure >> if I mentioned it or not but part of my testing was to try it with >> only 1 stick of memory, then the other. It did the same thing with >> either so if its go something to do with that, both memory sticks are >> bad. I also am running it with no power to that 2nd xp hard drive >> and also have the cd drive unplugged in case it was a power supply >> problem (which I dont think it is). This is just a cheapie emachine >> computer I bought about 4 years ago. Im leaning toward just buying a >> new one. >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 99 E430, 99 E320. 97 E300, 95 E300, 93 300D, 92 500SEL, 92 300SD, 91 350SDL, 91 300D, 90 300D, 89 560SEL, 87 300SDL x2, 85 190D, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 76 240D, 76 300D http://www.okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
