Hello Everyone,
My uncle, who lives in the USA has an E-Machines T2042 PC (Celeron 2GHz). I've seen the system itself when I was there last year....
Problem is that now it will not POST. He told me that the power light is now flashing and there is no video on the monitor, when the PC is switched on.
Prior to this, he said that the PC was very slow and doing all sorts of strange things.
About 2 weeks ago the external Linksys USB Wireless receiver wasn't detected after a windows reinstall.
Then the PC wouldn't shut down and kept clicking.... he said it sounded like electricity zapping noises.
Then a few days ago, he plugged the PC back in to see if the problem was still there and it didn't show anything on the monitor and that the power light was flashing.
He can still hear and electrcal zapping/ clicking noise inside his PC though.... apparently, it is coming from the back of the PC.
I personally don't know what the situation looks like because i'm not in the USA.... I'm at least 10000KM away from where he lives.
What I think happened is that the PSU killed the motherboard and whatever was on it.
I have no idea what brand the PSU is, but looking through other threads, I think it's most likely a Bestec and they are prone to kill Emachines motherboards.
Does anyone know what the power light flashing is telling us?? Is the motherboard dead or is it something else??
Thanks.
My uncle, who lives in the USA has an E-Machines T2042 PC (Celeron 2GHz). I've seen the system itself when I was there last year....
Problem is that now it will not POST. He told me that the power light is now flashing and there is no video on the monitor, when the PC is switched on.
Prior to this, he said that the PC was very slow and doing all sorts of strange things.
About 2 weeks ago the external Linksys USB Wireless receiver wasn't detected after a windows reinstall.
Then the PC wouldn't shut down and kept clicking.... he said it sounded like electricity zapping noises.
Then a few days ago, he plugged the PC back in to see if the problem was still there and it didn't show anything on the monitor and that the power light was flashing.
He can still hear and electrcal zapping/ clicking noise inside his PC though.... apparently, it is coming from the back of the PC.
I personally don't know what the situation looks like because i'm not in the USA.... I'm at least 10000KM away from where he lives.
What I think happened is that the PSU killed the motherboard and whatever was on it.
I have no idea what brand the PSU is, but looking through other threads, I think it's most likely a Bestec and they are prone to kill Emachines motherboards.
Does anyone know what the power light flashing is telling us?? Is the motherboard dead or is it something else??
Thanks.
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