dargz99 0 Newbie Poster

My uncle brought me his emachine to fix and im kind of stuck. When you try to turn it on Cpu fans come on, the hard rive comes on for a brief second and then idles, the light around the power button turns on, Cd-Drive comes in and out fine, I know Emachines are notorious for crappy PSU so I removed it and used it on an other tower and it worked. I am assuming that the motherboard is bad but when I remove the ram the computer starts beeping is that a sign that the motherboard is still good? There are two of them and I tried them on the motherboard in every combination, because I doubt that both would die at the same time or could that be it?

Emachine ET1641
CPU: Celeron Dual Core
Ram: 2 1G Samsung brand ram

OS: Vista Home