pulled the plug and "uh oh"

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One of my friends (who doesnt know much of anything about PC's) was shutting off her PC. It restarted, and since she didnt know how to turn it off immediately, she pulled the plug in the back. That was last night. Today, it wouldnt start when she hit the power in the front. After talking to her on the phone about making sure the power was on, that the outlet worked (her moniter was fine), I came over with my 480 W Tagan power supply. I figured it'd be waaaay more than enough to power her little e-machine with 128 MB of RAM (PC 2100), Athlon XP, Hard drive, CD-ROM Drive, and mother board (w/ two PCI Cards.).

With her old PSU, the CPU Fan would spin, the HD light in the front would be orange, and there might have been an LED on from one of the PCI Cards (maybe). Not being sure if she bew the PSU, I put mine in. Same results. I'm thinking it might be that she screwed her motherboard up. I dont think it would be the CPU, though I may be wrong about that so correct me if I am.

Thats all the information I could really get tonight, so what do you guys think? Most likely just the motherboard? All she does with this is internet, music, aim, word, and email (really really basic stuff).

Thanks for the help here.
 
Reset the CMOS on the board and use the jumpers to start up the computer. I am not familiar with e-Machine motherboards so I cannot tell you where they are, but they are usually fairly easy to identify.
 
Yep. Reset CMOS and try again. Same thing happens to many systems when you get a power 'flick' from the mains supply, and pulling the plug would create just such a thing.
 
Use the jumpers to start it?

Gosh I hate sounding so ignorant here...

Her powersupply doesnt have a powerswitch on it. So, its either plug in, or plug out. I just called her, and had her turn off the power, move the CMOS jumper, turn the power on, wait 30 secs, turn off power, move jumper back, turn on power, then try to start the machine. Nothing. Each time she turned the power on and off, she was plugging and unplugging the machine into the wall. Its the only way with that PSU. Now, if I used one of mine (w/ a power switch), you still think it'd work?

This is the mobo we're dealing with


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I am sorry, but I can't find it (it is kind of hard to see through a picture). Usually, it is two pins that you can connect with something with metal and the computer will start.
 
Oh....haha sry.....

Lemme change the pic to something a bit more informative.... (standby)

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UPDATE: I have the PC at my house now. I took my power supply and tried to boot her PC - nothing. I took her Hard Drive and hooked it up to my PC, and it would restart every time it tried to POST. (HD gone; she'll be thrilled.) I took my harddrive, hooked it up to her PC (with my power supply), and it still did nothing. I definately think the mobo is gone.
 
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