Hi, my brothers computer is an emachine, and it was working fine last night, now when he goes to turn it on, it just says something like computer display connected?
and nothing inside the cokputer turns of accept the fans. THe dvd drives dotn open, the power light doesnt turn on.
the only thing that he did to it since last nigt was take out the one stick of DDR memory to see if it would work in another computer which it wouldnt, then put it back in and he didnt fit it in all the way and I presseed it in all the way but now nothing is happeneding
When i Turn on the computer nothing happens except the monitor has a black screen and it asks Video Cable Connected? and its on blue.
Just so you know yes it is connected.
Also none of the cd drives will open they dont do nothing. the HDD doesnt spin up. the power button usually has a Blue ring around it. Now it doesnt not. The only light on this machine now that works is the HDD light. Its orange.
Today i was messing around with it. this is what i discovered.
There are 2 cords that go to the HDD, DVD-ROM DRIVE, and cd/rw Drive.
one is the power, the other is the one that leads to the mother board, i forget what its called. but its wide and gray, has lots of holes for where the prongs on the hdd go into.
well if I unhook that cord, (Not the power cord) the hdd spun up, the dvd roms turned on and will open up. i plugged the cord back into the HDD and it spins up still. but the DVD roms do not open anymore if that cord is plugged in.
RickyMan, if the computer doesn't post then can't go into safemode or nothing at all.
koolyoe, those wide cables are ide for the hd & rom drives but not floppy drive. disconnect both power & data cables from the drives. remove that stick of ram that started this mess if have another stick. reseat that "good" stick of ram. reseat all cards like video card. reseat all power cables to motherboard. clear the cmos as have found that to work sometimes to kickstart a stubborn pc.
If the motherboard has a couple of memory slots, take the memory out and put it in another slot. Sometimes it has happened to me where I got it to work by putting it in a different slot.
well i have tried all of your ideas, and none has been succesfful. I dont know what to think. i dont know how to test nething to see if there is soemthing burnt out or what.
how many rom drives and just the one hdd right all connected on one cable or is there more than one cable if more than one rom drive try one at a time to see if maybee one is faulty and draggin the sys down
Naa, im done trying to figure this thing out, im sure the MobO is just fried ive tried everythign, even a new power source. Ne1 wanna buy a broken computer lol.
