That just means there's power to the board. Have you tryed just plugging the fan into an open 3pin fan connector on the board. That will probably fix it for a while.
That just means there's power to the board. Have you tryed just plugging the fan into an open 3pin fan connector on the board. That will probably fix it for a while.
I did, and it didn't work. I couldn't get the computer to "repeat" what it did when the fan was just sputtering and randomly moving for a few seconds and stopping. All other 3 pin connectors on the board did not work, but like I said the fan kicked on high speed when I put it in their 7 year old Compaq and booted up the computer.
Still leaning towards a fried board? I've been looking for it and I couldn't find it at all, and on emachines.com it's sold out. I googled for a while and found some place selling it for 175.00, but it didn't look like a trust worthy (or at least a well known) site.
If anybody else would like to do some searching on other web sites you know of (all I use is newegg, and occasionally browse tiger direct) the board is an Intel 845gv Chipset.
I think emachines uses a proprietary mobo design, and if they do your better off just buying a new mobo and case for a lot less then then a new mobo on emachines.
Wait, wait. What would the mobo be propreitary to? The processor? If I were to rebuild this system, keeping as much of the old parts as I can, what could I keep? I know I could keep HDD and optical drives, and I assume the new PSU, but what else? Would the current CPU work if I got a compatible mobo for it?
Wait, wait. What would the mobo be propreitary to? The processor? If I were to rebuild this system, keeping as much of the old parts as I can, what could I keep? I know I could keep HDD and optical drives, and I assume the new PSU, but what else? Would the current CPU work if I got a compatible mobo for it?
Just the case and the mobo, basically, on proprietary designs they change the placement of the mount points and maybe a couple of other things. You can keep everything but the mobo and the case and transfer all the other hardware. But for simplicity's sake, you will need to do a fresh reinstall of windows when you get a new mobo.
Just the case and the mobo, basically, on proprietary designs they change the placement of the mount points and maybe a couple of other things. You can keep everything but the mobo and the case and transfer all the other hardware. But for simplicity's sake, you will need to do a fresh reinstall of windows when you get a new mobo.
The disc that came with their emachines may not work because it is proabibly a startup disc which means it installs EVERYTHING including drivers which could be a problem as you may not be able to boot with the wrong drivers. You need a retail version of XP if you want to install it on a custom PC.