I am working on a client's Emachine, and the problem I'm having is that it won't boot up. You can turn the machine on, and the power supply provides power to the system, and the cooling fan on the processor spins, and hard drive crunches, etc, but there is no boot up from the motherboard. The motherboard is an FIC AM37 L, and the processor is an AMD Athlon AX2000DMT3C.

I do not have another motherboard to test the processor, and visa-versa. I have disconnected all components from the motherboard except for the processor (of course), but it still won't boot up. No BIOS beep, no video signal, nothing. I've tried an APG video card, different memory..but still nothing but the cooling fan spinning and and hearing the hard drive crunching. I have removed the processor and inspected it, but I don't find anything that appears to be bad areas on the processor.

I do not want to purchase a processor assuming that's the problem, and then find out it's not. I am assuming it's the processor...but just not sure.

Any suggestions?
Ron

Do your own job

Hit your client in the face with a shovel for buying an Emachine?

Get out your mutimeter, jumper the power supply ON, check for -5v, that's minus 5 volts, may not be there.

I have an emachines motherboard kickin around the house that will support that CPU. I'll sell it to you fairly cheap too.

I feel your pain. Because of issues like this, I refuse to work on computers that have AOL installed. I won't clean up after AOl or eMachines or Norton Utilities and other such rubbish.

My brother is having the same problem. I told him I could fix it, but I'm having alot of trouble. When it boots up, everything seems to run fine; fans, hard drive, etc.; however the monitor says it's in power saving mode. Can't access bios or anything. Called emachine tech support, he told me to unplug everything a hold the power button for 30 seconds to clear the bios, but it didn't work. Try to find more info on this FIC AM37L, maybe use the jumpers to restore defaults.

my cousin has an emachine and it sucked... i tried to fix it too but with no luck... i recommand dont waste your time on it and just get another comp or build one yourself... these machine are the worst of all... same as sony... but anyway good luck...


From my cousin's broken emachine... i think 2 things are wrong with it... 1 is the motherboard is broken and 2 is the cpu.... i think what happened was that he had it ran 24hrs a day... and also it was old so it accumulated a lot of dirt... thus hindering the fan that was cooling the sys... so it ended up slowing it down making it not cool enough to cool the cpu so it fried....

I have an emachines and it kicks butt for what it is. Try removing the board from the computer itself if you have not done so already maybe something is grounding it out.

the board is probably suffering from the bad capacitors issue..search goolgle for that

I second this suggestion. I just troubleshooted another emachines computer. The system powered up, but no video, no beeps, no booting. I checked that peripherals were getting power. They were. Swapped out MB, same thing. Then I noticed the CD drive powered intermittently. Swapped out power supply. Bingo!

Mine is doing the same thing.. I have a laptop but the processor is not as big as the one in my desktop so I use it to play games and I cant.. If you guys do figure something out (or if I do) be sure to let me know.. I will do the same.. tfranklin29@yahoo.com