newbie with question on old timer

mopar4u · 11-03-2006, 02:31 PM

Sorry for the long story but I want to give all the details.

In Laws gave their gateway 800c essential computer to grandma. Worked before they left their house. Got it to grandma's plugged it in and it didn't work. Brought it to me and I replaced the power supply with a new one. Unfortunately that didn't fix it. No fans, no power nothing, all that I can assume is the motherboard went out. SOOOO to make everyone happy I offered up my old emachine 533 etower to give to grandma. I haven't used it for 4 weeks but it worked fine then. Pulled it out last night and replaced the dvd burned with a plain cd burner. Also noticed the power supply looked the same as the one from the gateway, so to ease my mind I wanted to try the other two power supplies to see if they work. I pulled that big main terminal block from the factory emachine power supply off and plugged in the new power supply I just bought for the gateway, turned it on and the fans all came on, so I quick turned it off. Great, new power supply works. I tried the one that I thought was bad from the gateway and I confirmed it was bad by trying it in the emachine. I went back to setting up the emachine for grandma, turned it on, fans came on, emachine screen came on and that is it, nothing else. I switched everything back to the way I had it and it still did the same thing, all that comes up is the emachine screen. I tried the recovery cd and nothing. Did I ruin something by plugging in the broken power supply? Help, any suggestions on either the gateway or the emachine?

codeman0013 · 11-03-2006, 02:50 PM

If you have a bootable cd for like xp just put it in and boot to it if you can get into bios and set it to boot to the cd then just reformatt if its a new install for the grandma anyway it wont hurt it to be a new install...

mopar4u · 11-03-2006, 03:07 PM

I put in the recovery cd which is a bootable cd, how do I get into bios on this machine?

codeman0013 · 11-03-2006, 03:08 PM

depends on the model can be anything from f2 to f8 to f12 to delete try all of those and eventually one will let you in

mopar4u · 11-03-2006, 03:11 PM

What do you think I did?

StrangleHold · 11-03-2006, 03:48 PM

Does it have the 4 pin power connector, did you plug it in?

mopar4u · 11-03-2006, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StrangleHold

Does it have the 4 pin power connector, did you plug it in?

The emachine is completely stock and all connectors are plugged in. I'm wondering if when I was playing with the big terminal block which is located next to the hard drive ribbon, maybe the ribbon is bad. I made sure it was plugged in tight.

11-03-2006, 02:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
mopar4u New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 19	newbie with question on old timer Sorry for the long story but I want to give all the details. In Laws gave their gateway 800c essential computer to grandma. Worked before they left their house. Got it to grandma's plugged it in and it didn't work. Brought it to me and I replaced the power supply with a new one. Unfortunately that didn't fix it. No fans, no power nothing, all that I can assume is the motherboard went out. SOOOO to make everyone happy I offered up my old emachine 533 etower to give to grandma. I haven't used it for 4 weeks but it worked fine then. Pulled it out last night and replaced the dvd burned with a plain cd burner. Also noticed the power supply looked the same as the one from the gateway, so to ease my mind I wanted to try the other two power supplies to see if they work. I pulled that big main terminal block from the factory emachine power supply off and plugged in the new power supply I just bought for the gateway, turned it on and the fans all came on, so I quick turned it off. Great, new power supply works. I tried the one that I thought was bad from the gateway and I confirmed it was bad by trying it in the emachine. I went back to setting up the emachine for grandma, turned it on, fans came on, emachine screen came on and that is it, nothing else. I switched everything back to the way I had it and it still did the same thing, all that comes up is the emachine screen. I tried the recovery cd and nothing. Did I ruin something by plugging in the broken power supply? Help, any suggestions on either the gateway or the emachine?

11-03-2006, 03:48 PM	#6 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: And you think your safe! Posts: 8,164	Does it have the 4 pin power connector, did you plug it in? __________________ NZXT Apollo Phenom 8750BE 3.0ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066 4gb. PNY 8800GT/VD964 W/D RE2 Sata 3.0 500gb.

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codeman0013 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Inside my network at work Age: 23 Posts: 1,518	If you have a bootable cd for like xp just put it in and boot to it if you can get into bios and set it to boot to the cd then just reformatt if its a new install for the grandma anyway it wont hurt it to be a new install...

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mopar4u New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 19	I put in the recovery cd which is a bootable cd, how do I get into bios on this machine?

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codeman0013 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Inside my network at work Age: 23 Posts: 1,518	depends on the model can be anything from f2 to f8 to f12 to delete try all of those and eventually one will let you in

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mopar4u New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 19	What do you think I did?