So i have this emachines T2542 on my hands-- 2.53 celeron D machine with 256meg of 333 ddr ram.
Pressing the button on the front won't start it. At all. I mean nothing happens. No fans begin, no monitor turns on-- nothing at all occurs. SO I opened it up and took a look inside to check that everything was plugged in and so on. It was
Then I changed the power supply. Still nothing.
Then I took a look at the button mechanism-- it's fine, makes contact and everything.
Then, I felt a REALLY HOT capacitor on the board and turned the thing 'off'' as in disconnected the power supply.
Then I got a NEW micro ATX board, copied the contents off of the hard drive, and installed the new board with the old chip and Ram, preparing to make the machine again with all original parts save the board. When clicking the button, NOTHING happened.
I flipped the jumper of the PW SW around on the pins. Still nothing.
I switched the power supply again-- to one that I know works. Nothing happened.
The only thing I do get is this burny smell coming from somewhere inside the machine. I know-- not good. But there are no hot capacitors or heat sinks.
The green mobo light of the new board correctly turns on whenever the PSU is plugged in-- no matter which PSU i'm using.
What's the poblem? Any suggestions? The chip seemed very much in tact when I inspected it, but nothing's going on when the power sw is activated.
Any suggestions? Please?
Then I disconnected
Pressing the button on the front won't start it. At all. I mean nothing happens. No fans begin, no monitor turns on-- nothing at all occurs. SO I opened it up and took a look inside to check that everything was plugged in and so on. It was
Then I changed the power supply. Still nothing.
Then I took a look at the button mechanism-- it's fine, makes contact and everything.
Then, I felt a REALLY HOT capacitor on the board and turned the thing 'off'' as in disconnected the power supply.
Then I got a NEW micro ATX board, copied the contents off of the hard drive, and installed the new board with the old chip and Ram, preparing to make the machine again with all original parts save the board. When clicking the button, NOTHING happened.
I flipped the jumper of the PW SW around on the pins. Still nothing.
I switched the power supply again-- to one that I know works. Nothing happened.
The only thing I do get is this burny smell coming from somewhere inside the machine. I know-- not good. But there are no hot capacitors or heat sinks.
The green mobo light of the new board correctly turns on whenever the PSU is plugged in-- no matter which PSU i'm using.
What's the poblem? Any suggestions? The chip seemed very much in tact when I inspected it, but nothing's going on when the power sw is activated.
Any suggestions? Please?
Then I disconnected