Emachine Powers up But wont boot up

[jwright68]

My dads emachine w2040 It wouldnt power up at all one day. I replaced the power supply with the recomended upgrade from emachine. Now it powers up just fine, the fans are flowing, the cd drive opens and closes, but the HD lights up one time then thats it. Nothing is coming over the monitor nothing is happening as far as the boot up process. I suspect that lightning or power surge has damaged the psu but I dont think the MoBo was damaged. What should I check? Should I try the restore disk? Help?

[TT4Titans]

Is the monitor on?

Have you tried a different monitor.

[jwright68]

Is the monitor on?

Have you tried a different monitor.

Yes the monitor is on and the lights work on the monitor as well the message that scrolls around asking you to check your monitor and plug in.. Something like. The HD blinks one time then the pc acts like it crashed or never booted up from the HD.

[TT4Titans]

Go into Bios and see if it recognizes the HD.it may be your HD crashed.go to the HD's manufature site and get there util to test it.

[larry9510]

I am having a simular problem with my daughter's T6420 E-Machine. I se the light flicker for the CD/DVD combo, HD activity indicator(?) light and the fan runs at a high rate. Then it just sits there like a bump-on-a-log! The PC will go into shut-down; however, it doesn't shut off completly.

I found that I can get it to boot by hitting the F8 key as-soon-as I see the HD activity light come on.

After that, it runs fine.

Summary - It appears that the start-up/shut-down process can't find what it is looking for ( I can relate!), e.g., Boot and/or shut-down instructions.

[TT4Titans]

If it will run in Safe Mode then it sounds like a driver problem. But I seen where you posted somewhere else you D\L all the drivers. Did you go into BIOS and load system defaults? also seeing if there was a BIOS update and flashing it?

[larry9510]

The PC runs in normal when I can get it to boot with the F8 key.

It seems to turn off everything except the PC its self during shut-down/Restart. Receive an immediate “No SYNC” on the monitor and no response from keyboard or mouse. Windows does go through its shut down procedures, at least. I then must push & hold the power button until it actually turns off the power.

I attempted to Flash it with BIOS update; however, it apparently is not reading the CD drive even though I can see that it recognizes it during boot. The monitor went crazy and had to back it (Restore) up after mom’s update.

The F8 key doesn’t always work. Some times, when I push the power button to start it, I get the “No SYNC” immediately. May just be a coincidence.

I tried selecting the NVIDIA Boot Agent (try anything) during boot-up and receive a message "No boot filename received". Does that have anything to do with the problem?

[TT4Titans]

Go into your BIOS and change the boot order to just HDD.

The no sync see if there is a driver for the monitor.

[Beastmanh]

Do you hear any 'beeps' when its failing to boot?

Cheers :)

[larry9510]

No beeps. Just sits there like a bump on a log. I have tried to Flash with no success. I set the CD as first boot sys and it appears that the CD is poled during start-up.

[larry9510]

Talk about wierd!! I have the access panel for after I had cleaned it out. I was looking inside (I don't know for what), so I had leaned it against anothe PC. I reached around to hit the power button to see if the fans were operating. Both fans came on (the processor fan the loudest), and it slowed down and the PC booted up without me having to select the F8 key. I haven't found any proken nor loose connections.

However, it was an apparent one thing. Next time it didn't work.

[larry9510]

Getting wierder. PC was still leaning - would not boot again. Hit the power button and fan came on loud, but nothing! I sat the PC back straight, and lo-and-behold it started to boot.

Any suggestions other than shooting it?

[derp]

Hello, just posting to say I had EXACTLY the same problem as the original poster: PC wouldnt boot power at all, so I installed a new PSU, and booting would now give me the CPU and case fan, and the case lights. However, nothing on the monitor, no POST, no system beeps, no error beeps, no sound of hard drives loading....

I got to the point where I ordered a new CPU and motherboard (an upgrade from my original intel socket 478 to an intel socket 775.. I got a dual core at last ;p). However, I still got the same problem. Everything is plugged in correctly, I am sure of that.

But the same problem with 2 different mobos + cpu combinations is fishy.

Is there any chance that itis the PSU?

Here are my system stats:

Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.4GHz
Asrock 4CoreDual ( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141884 )
GeForce 6600 GT
Soundblaster Live! sound card
2x Hard Drives
CD/DVD drive
Wireless PCI card
One case fan
Power and LED lights

I have tried unplugging everything from the power - lights, hard drives, all AGP/PCI cards, case fan... as far as I can tell, this still gets me nothing (Removing my RAM does not give me any error beeps... no other beeps, such as no keyboard error...)

What is going on?!

[Beastmanh]

I would try taking out your memory sticks and re-seating them... (just a shot in the dark)

Then I would unplug the power from EVERY piece of hardware that isn't needed to boot up... CD/DVD drives, floppy drives, sd card readers, ANYTHING that is extra. And if you have an after market graphics card, I would take it out and go back to the integrated graphics on the motherboard... at least for the time being. And then unplug ANY external equipment... anything going into a PS2 or USB port INCLUDING printers, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Try and boot it then... Watch the lights on the case and see if it boots.... give it a few minutes and then plug the monitor in to see if it booted. If it does, then you can plug things back in one at a time, (rebooting in between every device) and narrow the problem down to one thing.

Cheers,

~Mike

[Beastmanh]

Definitely sounds like a loose connection. Make sure your ribbon cables are tight into the mobo and the HD's.

~Mike

[derp]

Definitely sounds like a loose connection. Make sure your ribbon cables are tight into the mobo and the HD's.

~Mike

Is this directed at my problem, or larry's? =)

(To both of your posts, I guess!)

[Beastmanh]

Derp, if I were you I would strip the system down to bare minimals like I described earlier. I usually do this anyways when I change out a motherboard. Every time I have just thrown a machine together completely and then booted, there was at least one problem/driver/conflict that had to be resolved... (or maybe im just unlucky lol)

~Mike

[derp]

I have already attempted something like this, and still get the same problem - no beeps, no signal to monitor etc etc

I could probably try a few more times and try some different combinations, but I am not sure this is a 'barebones system' problem.

[Beastmanh]

Derp, does your mobo have built in graphics?

I would take out all of the cards too.. soundblaster, all that extra stuff... Try to get it to boot with only PSU, mobo, and HD. That narrows it down to HD, or bad memory... (since the mobo is new)

[derp]

Sadly no

My first motherboard (read up for the full story behind my pc ;p) did, and I did try removing the graphics card with everything else, and relied on the onboard graphics to try and get a signal, but as far as I could tell, nothing.

But no, my current motherboard does not have onboard graphics.