okay. it's an eMachine. the light around the power button is on, but the computer itself wont turn on, no matter how many times ive punched the button or held it down. the orange light that flickers on the machine itself isnt there. there is a faint, high pitched sound and i think its either the optical drive or the thing trying to turn on. but i have no idea! please help!
2006-06-27 01:18:41 · 12 answers · asked by Raven 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
ive had this computer for 4 years. it never did this before. lastnight, it tried to star up out of standby and the orange light flickered like it was being started up really fast. the moniter is acting like its disconnected and the fan isnt on.
2006-06-27 01:25:59 · update #1
its one of the big desktop machines
2006-06-27 01:26:25 · update #2
theres no sound coming from the machine that would signal its doing anything
2006-06-27 01:27:56 · update #3
the sound is like a really fast clicking thats faint and kinad high pitched. im kinda deaf so its hard to tell
2006-06-27 01:31:13 · update #4
its coming from the top half of the machine
2006-06-27 01:31:51 · update #5
the brand is eMachine. i got it from Best Buy. its a windows Xp and yes, i have two. this one is a piece of crap though.
2006-06-27 01:34:45 · update #6
oh yeah. it was on yesterday. i was playing HALO yesterday morning and it didnt have a problem then.
2006-06-27 01:40:40 · update #7
ive got a bunch of pictures and stuff on that machine too. i dont wanna lose them.
2006-06-27 01:42:09 · update #8
no matter what i do it wont turn on OR off. so i have to keep turning the power on the surge protecter i keep haveing to cut the power.
2006-06-27 01:44:02 · update #9
Is there anything on the monitor when you turn it on or is it just completely black?
It could be a number of things. It could be your fan or your connection or maybe your RAM is damaged. Normally if your hard drive or memory dies, you would not be able to turn the computer on at all or you get a message on your monitor saying an error occurred trying to read your drive.
I have an emachine too, I usually do my own fixes, but I would open the motherboard up and watch what the circuits are doing when you try to turn it on. If you had a short circuit from a power outage and you dont have a surge protector, then its possible it damaged your hard drive or your memory.
EDIT: Yes, 4 years is usually the lifetime of a desktop computer, especially an emachine. You will have to take it to the technician and figure out whats wrong with it because I read the other DETAILS and it sounds like your hard drive has fried or some part of your motherboard has been damaged. You will need to install a new hard drive. Normally when your hard drive gets fried, the data is not retrievable. A technician can tell you whether or not they can save the data, but it will cost you A LOT trying to recover all your data from your hard drive. You should always backup any important data every few months to a CD-RW in case this stuff happens. A computers lifetime is very random, but 4 years is usually when something goes wrong.
2006-06-27 01:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by Sean I.T ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds to me like you have one of two problems, either your Power supply has fried (A high pitched sound coming from the PS is typical when a power supply has had it, try looking to see if the exhaust fan is turning when you try to turn it on, its right by where you plug the power cord into, if it does not turn, then its a dead power supply)
OR you may have a mother board problem, if it was your Hard drive that was the problem, then more than often, your bios would recognize this and you would get an error stating something like "No operating system found" or "HDD 0 error", or "No boot device found"
Hope this helps.
2006-06-27 08:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by Louis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How did you manage to send this message--without a computer??Do you have 2 or something??Try another power source first.If you have a surge protection board,try bypassing that.its a process of eliminating things ,then it comes down to a short in the computer start button etc--What on earth is an E machine--at least you gave that info-as most people dont and its very hard to answer a question when you dont know what someone is using.
2006-06-27 08:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by Ron~N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you mean by "faint high pitched sound." What is the location? Is it coming from the computer speaker? If so, it could mean that your video card has become unseated. In your eMachines instruction manual there should be a description of all of the possible system beeps.
2006-06-27 08:28:50 · answer #4 · answered by internetguy72 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well check whether the graphics card fan is running n check the connection between the monitor plug n the graphics card
u shud have done wat i told u if u have an additional graphic card
if u hav an inbuilt graphic card then thers a problem with the processor or the picture tube of ur monitor \
ne ways i don care ask some reapir guy n tell him to repair it
chao suckerr
2006-06-27 08:29:57 · answer #5 · answered by nakul_kool 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure there is no Floppy Disk in the machine?!!
Take the disk out of the A drive and try again.
Also make sure none of your keys on your keyboard are down or that nothing is pressing it and lastly make sure the buttons on your mouse is not clicked down.
2006-06-27 08:23:01 · answer #6 · answered by liljomo1234 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is it a laptop? or desktop. try unplugging and waiting a few minutes .sounds like the machine is hibernating. try holding the power button down for 5 seconds and see what happens. good luck. if it's a 5300 series laptop, they recalled all those for heat problems, there was a class action suit filed and settled on those. if it is a 5300 sries, email me for info.
2006-06-27 08:24:39 · answer #7 · answered by feeln17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sound, its called POST, or power on self test. Its a code, hire a tech to interpret it. ill give u a tip, _... means its video card. and each distinct sound has an equivalent trouble code. its too long to elaborate, better find a tech to help. if Im there ill be glad to help. but sad to say, I live in the philippines.
2006-06-27 08:29:21 · answer #8 · answered by jeegie312 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems like your Hard Disk is not booting up!!! either the connections to your Hard Drives are loose your your Hard Disk is dead!!!
Get a Hardware Engineer to solve it !
2006-06-27 08:24:55 · answer #9 · answered by programmer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could it be that your computer is turning on but your monitor won't let you see it? Does the monitor light show yellow or green? (green = monitor is getting vid signal from the computer)
2006-06-27 08:25:53 · answer #10 · answered by pappy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋