eMachine motherboard replacement HELP Please?

Hi All,
Well my emachine w2247's MB is fried as of the other day. I pluged in another keyboard w/out turning it off ,which ive done before, and dont ask me but the MB is fried. anyways i wanna get a new or used mb see if my memory and prosser and such is ok and more importantly (cs) retrive whats on my hard drive. So the TECH guy at emachines said i can put a micro atx form factor somethin, somethin in it and change the cpu ,but then id need a new hd but i can use the old one for a slave drive, or i can wait around until i can find a used AM37 AMD Athlon™ XP 2000+ 1.667 GHz mb and put that in and providing everything else is ok can run as if nothin happened (until that mb goes out) hardy har, yea i know now that emachines are crappy . So if any one else has any other suggestions then plezz let me know! i was kinda interested in what one guy said i guess in another thread about changing the mb with an aftermarket and reinstalling windows or something and still having everything on his hd, but i cant find it now?? (blond) anyways any help would b great, thanks

Okay guys, I need help!! I installed a new board, I got it from newegg, the page you referred me to. I got it in okay, but something's wrong. The power switch works, the fans run, and all the lights work on the front panel. It sounds like it is starting as usual, which is good, it hasn't done that in a long time. But, the monitor light stays amber and the hard disk light on the front stays amber also. I tried reseating the CPU and the RAM and they're both in tight, as are all the connections that I know of. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Guess I'm on my own again...

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Pebbles,

Did you ever resolve the replacement of your eMachine motherboard.
I want to replace my board (FIC AM37L) in a D2346 eMachine and I'm wondering if the Operating System (WinXP) is tied to the system bios or motherboard serial number that would prevent a simple swap of the boards. I'm also wondering if the restore disks that came with the computer would work on another eMachines board that is not identical to the one I'm replacing.

I'm sorry your issue was not ultimately resolved on TechSpot.

Thanks in advance,


F. Fota

Where can I find out all of my motherboard specifics. I have an eMachines T2682 and my motherboard is fried. I have an Intel Celeron 2.6 GHz, but I know nothing about the motherboard. Where would I find the socket information and size of whether it would fit in my case? Forgive me I am a newbie!

http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T-Series&model=T2682

BOM for : T2862
Part Category Description Part Number
Speaker: SPEAKER,SP-30A(AMP)(blk fabric)-NO LOGO 100706
HDD: HDD,60GB 7200rpm
Keyboard Model: KB,9908,EN104K,PS/2,EMA CH-Gray/Blk-key 2422
Power Supply: PS, 250 WATT 100744
Multimedia Reader: MEDIA READER,NEXGEN3 8IN1 IOI ASEM100712RD
Video: Video, integrated
Chassis: Chassis,Nexgen 3&3LC MAIN FRAME
CPU Fan Type: FAN,H/S CEL +3.2 478P TAISOL CEP459101A6
MB: MB,SEABREEZE INTEL 101776
CPU: CPU,CEL 2.66 478P F533 CLDPS-330
ODD1: COMBO,NXGN3LC CDRW48X24X48+DVD16X 100521
Memory: Mem, DDR-RAM 256MB (MAX. 2GB)
Modem: MODEM,FAX CONEXANT V92 56K RD01D850 WELL 101198
Mouse: MOUSE,SILVER WHEEL, BLACK GLOSS NO LOGO 100704
LAN: LAN, 10/100 Integrated
Suggested Upgrade or Replacement Products Available
Part Category Description Part# Price
Network Cards 10 / 100 LAN Adapter PSEMLNE100TX 29.95
Video Controller ATI RADEON 9250SE 128MB DDR DVI/TV-OUT PCI VAPCAR92128P 99.95
DVD +/- RW eMachines 16X Dual Layer Format DVD Writer DVEM100686RW 129.95
Memory eMachines 1GB DDR RAM Upgrade ME102DDR2700 149.95
Memory eMachines 256MB DDR RAM Upgrade ME256DDR2700 49.95
CDROM/CDRW eMachines 48X CDROM - Nexgen CDEM1669S48X 49.95
Memory eMachines 512MB DDR RAM Upgrade ME512DDR2700 79.95
Floppy Drive Ext. USB Floppy Drive 2X Titanium NBACFDUSBTM2 49.95


Part Number:
blue = direct purchase | black = not currently available

Huh? Says who? I replaced both power supply, fan and Mobo and used the same CPU with emachines PC. Every single other thing remained same. It works fine now. Mine was T2692 working at 2.6 GHz.

More HELP PLEASE

Okay guys!! I have replaced the motherboard and HD, and I am running into the same problem.

Specifically, the machine boots, goes to the windows starting screen, then blue screens for half a second and reboots.

If I boot in safe mode it runs through a long string of sys files and hangs up on mup.sys. I can not get windows to boot.

Is it my restore CD? Maybe the CPU? The CPU is recognized in the BIOS, like all my drives, so I am not sure what is wrong. Any ideas?

I had an Emachines t2642 and my motherboard went alittle after the computer was 2 years old. So yeah I dont recommend them. Also I find some flaws in Dell systems as well

1: WOREST TECH SUPPORT EVER!!! (and its even in INDIA :knock: )

2: Horrible design they are almost imposible at upgrading the Vedio cards without having to put a new power supply in and sometimes the powersupply is too strong for the motherboard so you need a new power supply and a motherboard)

But yes if your only going to use it for internet and like word proccessing and your really good at comptuers and dont need tech support at $299 its a steal

Once you replaced mobo, you have to reinstall Windows. Put your original (NOT replacement CD) Windows CD and restart. Let the System figure out by itself and it will reinstall windows. Your original emachines 'system replacement' CDs are no more useful for you except when you need drivers for your devices. So install windows back and let it run. It can take up to 40 min to do this installation.

Next, see control panel - system and hardware and device manager. If any devices are shown with "?" then put your original CDs in and let windows get the driver files (ONLY) from this CDs. Do NOT do the system replacement. It will screw up the windows installation you first put.

That is how I did for my machine. If any drivers were not found, for example the sound card, etc I downloaded drivers from websites. BTW the software like MS-Office etc remained on HDD and did not have to worry. Windows when installed, figured those out easily. May be instead of reinstall windows does the repair job but whatever it is, it figures out stuff for you.

Good luck!

Did you resolve your motherboard problems?

I have purchased a similar sized motherboard with entirely different chipset and performed a repair installation with someone's winXP disk. Saved everything and did not have to call microsoft to verify the repair (i.e., in-place) installation either.

F. Fota

emachine tech reply

Have a 3 year old emachine that got fried by power surge; son did new case, mobo, processor, graphics card, power supply, etc. Hard drive seemed to be OK, but ended up talking to 6 people from Microsoft. They finally sent me to emachines. Tech told me that reason Win XP would not re-activiate is because would have had to use another emachine mobo. Hard drive will not recognize the new board. He suggested I buy a whole new copy of WIN XP and install it. Claimed even the emachine "restore disk" would not work--which I never got to begin with! This stinks! Have already put $220.00 into this revamp. Have said all this to ask this--if I buy an "Upgrade WIN XP" and use my old WIN 98 SE disk when it is asked for during install; will this work instead of a full copy? Would appreciate any thoughts. Thanx.

emachine tech reply

Have a 3 year old emachine that got fried by power surge; son did new case, mobo, processor, graphics card, power supply, etc. Hard drive seemed to be OK, but ended up talking to 6 people from Microsoft. They finally sent me to emachines. Tech told me that reason Win XP would not re-activiate is because would have had to use another emachine mobo. Hard drive will not recognize the new board. He suggested I buy a whole new copy of WIN XP and install it. Claimed even the emachine "restore disk" would not work--which I never got to begin with! This stinks! Have already put $220.00 into this revamp. Have said all this to ask this--if I buy an "Upgrade WIN XP" and use my old WIN 98 SE disk when it is asked for during install; will this work instead of a full copy? Would appreciate any thoughts. Thanx.

Motherboard woes?

If the hard drive is OK, you can find eMachine motherboards on eBay for about $45 - $90. With the eMachine motherboard installed, you will have to perform a repair installation of Windows XP (Note: Not from the recovery console. Hit F8 to install windows and choose the repair option.). You will need a Windows XP disk with the same version of Windows XP as installed on your machine. You may be able to recover as if nothing happened. However, if the eMachine board you purchase is significantly different, you will need to perform the repair installation and activate the software. I performed the repair installation switching between an eMachine FIC motherboard with VIA chipset to an MSI motherboard with NVidia nForce2 chipset. My activation did not require a call to microsoft. The restore disks will work (this may be your only option if the hard disk is corrupt). Again, if the eMachine board you purchase is significantly different, you will still need to perform the repair installation.

F. Fota

Motherboard Woes?

If the hard drive is OK, you can find eMachine motherboards on eBay for about $45 - $90. With the eMachine motherboard installed, you will have to perform a repair installation of Windows XP (Note: Not from the recovery console. Hit F8 to install windows and choose the repair option.). You will need a Windows XP disk with the same version of Windows XP as installed on your machine. You may be able to recover as if nothing happened. However, if the eMachine board you purchase is significantly different, you will need to perform the repair installation and activate the software. I performed the repair installation switching between an eMachine FIC motherboard with VIA chipset to an MSI motherboard with NVidia nForce2 chipset. My activation did not require a call to microsoft. The restore disks will work (this may be your only option if the hard disk is corrupt). Again, if the eMachine board you purchase is significantly different, you will still need to perform the repair installation.

F. Fota

e-machine tech

I am an e-machine tech.
You can replace the mobo with the same thing but then you have to tatoo the new board with the info so the recover disks recognize it. And true your recovery cds will not work on any other board. Under warranty if I have to replace with a new board, they will send me out the new board along with a Ghost CD that has everything for the new board.

Really?

My emachines died (well it was sort of dying for a few weeks) and I put in the local store Mobo (ASUS brand and paid $60). It works OK now. Once an emachine mobo dies what is the use of putting another emachines mobo? I am glad I did not use the same kind of mobo.

I also replaced power supply and fan for CPU. All inclusive my cost was something like < $100. $60 mobo, 450W power supply like $25 and fan like $7 or so. All is well for now. I installed everest software to see my PC temperatures. It regularly shows that temps of CPU and chassis go above 37 degrees C which is usually high.

But as long as the system keeps working, I do not care about what temperatures the CPU and chassis show. BTW the mobo was socket 478 and I bought the same socket mobo and used the same CPU. All I did, after replacing mobo was to insert the WinXP CD and let it configure itself. A few drivers were installed for the emachines devices from the restore CD emachines provided. It took about 2 hours for the entire thing.

Did *NOT* have to format HDD and all software and files I had before remained the same. Not a worry at all. This includes DSL software from SBC and when ready, the DSL modem connected itself with ease. Not a bit of change required. I also bought a cheapo router from CompUSA ($15) and installed it to work with the same mobo and PC. My laptop connects to this cheapo router fine and all is perfect.

What gives you the impression that mobo change will *NOT* work? If it worked for me, it should work for anyone else.

Lesson learned :- For the tempting price of $199 or so do NOT ever buy emachines. It is a plain waste of $. Well I paid $199 and now another $100 so I am still OK about price.

Another T2682 MoBo failure

I've got an eMachines T2682 with a failed MoBo. I believe the HD is fine, so I'm hoping I can bring it back by just swapping in a new MoBo and power supply (just to be safe). My concern, confirmed by this thread, is Windows XP not allowing the system to boot up with the new board.

I have not yet purchased a new mobo, and I want to make the best choice . Those of you who have been successful, what specific mobo have you used as a replacement? The ID printed on the actual failed mobo is Imperial GV 20030812 and I understand it uses the Intel 845 chipset. Do I need to find something that also uses the 845 chipset? What is the key to success here?

Thanks,
Brad

My problem is exactly the same as DPDISXR4Ti , don't want to run into the same problem again. So I just want to replace the mobo with one that the RAM- pc2100, and CPU will just drop in, and the rest I can take care of. But I want it to work. Any proven suggestions for a replacement mobo will be greatly appreciated. I have somewhere in the ballpark of 65 dollars to play with, but of course, less would be better.....LOL.
Thanks, I do have to say that the threads on this site are VERY VERY helpful, and I have placed this into my Favorites and deleted all other tech sites.
Keep up all the good work..........And thank you so MUCH!!!!!!