PC Problem ( techs needed big time) Options

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OK, here is the problem. My mother shut her PC (2ghz celeron EMachine; WinXP) down 4 days ago, and like usual left it to shut off. Well when she came back it didnt shut down. It was just sitting there with the keyboard,mouse,and tower light flashing all syncranized(sp?). So we switched out the power supply since the fan wouldnt turn on it. Nope, that wasn't the problem. So we then decided to take the hard drive and connect it to 2 other PC's we had sitting around the house.

One of them is a 733Mhz Hewlett Packard. When we connect it it says a disk error. Then we tried the other PC. Which is slower then a 1.3 but faster than the HP. We connected it and it got to the point of loading up to safe mode, but then it just sits there along with all the other modes.

So any ideas of what might be wrong? And Do you think the hard drive crapped the bed?

[DamDirtyApes]

problem 1... its a emachines, you get what you pay for with those.


open up the case, and power the system up. do all the fans come on? do you hear the all ok beep the motherboard sends out right after you press the power button?
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My first computer was an emachines, best computer i have ever owned. IN the 5 years it was in my household it never froze up or had any hardware breaking. I wish i could say that for my dell. ( by the way, dont ever bye dell they are the biggest piles of **** and their tech support sucks)



but ne ways, start computer uip and go into safemode, that should work. If u cant do it try buying a new hard drive or borrowing a clean hard drive from someone and try starting up the computer with that in, and install windows if possible. If that works then u know ur hard drive is broken

This post has been edited by DamDirtyApes: Jun 1, 2005 - 8:51 PM