Floppy drive light does not come on. CD drive light does not flash and the drive will not open. Only the fans seem to work.
It is no longer in warrantee, I am sure. Thanks, Rod Lindgren -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Button Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HARDware: EMachine won't boot Can you get into the BIOS - well how would you know with no monitor display Got a floppy drive - does the light go on, then off Will it recognise a disk is in the drive, Will it recognise there is a CD in the drive Does it bleep at you when you power it up if so - how many bleeps Basically, I'd say put the drive in another PC - but not as booting drive and preferably on a separate cable as IDE 1, rather than IDE 0 you may be able to recover the data The eMachine - are ALL the fans working Assuming that the problem is only one of the PSU, Motherboard, Memory, CPU, or BIOS failure Only way to tell if memory, or CPU is to swap out to another PC and see if that one works with the suspect components ----------------------------------- Final considerations, where was it bought when was it bought In warrantee, -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
