eMachine motherboard replacement HELP Please?

The problem with these Imperial GV mobo's (aside from the fact that they are utter GARBAGE!), is that they are getting old now. Apparently they were already old when eMachines must have purchased a truckload of them and subsequently dumped them on us.

An excellent choice for a plug-n-play MB would have been this one, but they are discontinued and nobody has any left in stock. (Trust me, I searched)
http://shop.bluecollarcomp.com/prod...d=276&osCsid=9397ca264ef3de25f96505b178679031

So upon recommendation from a knowledgeable source, I recently (yesterday) gave up and purchased this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130490

At $45, it's cheaper and "better", and I understand it will be "restore-disk compatible", so I shouldn't need to buy a new copy of XP to get it going. I don't quite understand all of that, but I guess I'll be figuring it out soon.

That's all I tell you at this point....

I have an Emachines AMD Athlon 2800+ T2865 that is totally "dead". I am going to replace the motherboard with a miniATX AMD Foxconn board and replace the Power Q 250 watt power supply, with an FSP Group 300 watt. The only thing left of the original Emachines system is the case, memory, CPU, CD Burner and the 160GB Western Digital hard drive. The Foxconn will accept the CPU and memory from the old FIC AU31 POS motherboard... Hopefully the memory and CPU are good. The only real way to test these, is to replace them...

To heck with restore-disc compatibility... You will say this too, when you find that the Emachines restore disc is virtually useless with exact Emachines replacment parts

HELLO EVERYONE!!!!!! Yes, You Can Put A New Motherboard On An E-machines!!!!

GUYS! YESSSSSSS! YOU CAN CHANGE THE MOTHERBOARD ON A E-MACHINES, IM USING MY COMPUTER TO POST THIS MESSAGE. I RECENTLY BOUGHT A NEW MOTHERBOARD FROM NEWEGG.COM. I INSTALLED IT, AND THE SYSTEM WORKS BETTER THAT EVER. MY SYSTEM IS NOW FASTER THAN BEFORE. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BUY THE SAME MOTHERBOARD. ANY MOTHER THAT HAS A 478 SOCKET WITH A FSB OF 400MHZ OR HIGHER WILL WORK PERFECTLY. IF YOU DONT BELEIVE ME. PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTIONS. I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP YOU. SO NOW MY COMPUTER IS NO LONGER A T2682 E-MACHINES, BUT A COMPUTER THAT I CREATED BUT WITH A NEW MOTHERBOARD AND IT WORKS GREAT. SO DONT GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!! AND AGAIN YES YOU CAN PUT A NEW MOTHERBOARD ON ANY E-MACHINES AN MAKE IT BETTER THAN EVER. ALSO ONE MORE THING THE MOTHERBOARD IS AN ASUS MOTHERBOARD AND IT ONLY COST ME $45.

Good work Rick#1,
I've been saying the same thing for weeks I do this all the time with Emachines systems. There's only one Emachines power supply that needs to be replaced along with the motherboard, that I've seen.

Is the CapsLock key stuck on your Emachines keyboard?

Yeah but you have to buy a new copy of widnows dont you?

Thanks!! Tmagic650
To be honest I recenty bought a new Keyboard. However, the e-machines keyboards seems ok.

Okay, I've got a machine that is finally powering up (needed to replace power supply, mobo, processor, and keyboard). Upon power-up now, I'm being asked whether I want to start Windows in Safe Mode or "Start Windows Normally". I was going to just try "Normally" but didn't want to take a step that sent me down the wrong path. Advice?

TIA,
Brad

That's easy... Start Windows normally

Well, so much for "Starting Windows Normally". I didn't really expect it to work - it tries, and then I get this message...

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer." blah, blah, blah...

Same deal if I try to boot up in Safe mode.

A suspect the "problem" is more of an artificial one, caused by Win XP thinking I'm trying to run on a new (unlicensed) machine.

Who can guide me on next steps?

It can be done

Just serviced the same yesterday eMachine 2642 client brought it in dead MB the model of the board was Mat,NO 143159 Imperial_GV 20030812. Simple solution was to pull board matched it with a Foxconn 661MXPro which is a MATX form factor dropped right in no problem.

Having said that only 2 issues #1 being the OEM O/S in this case XP Home and client could'nt find CD and #2 the Foxconn Board does not have a pizeo speaker no biggie.

To work around the OEM Install O/S I did a inplace upgrade install of XP which required a reregistration of the O/S again no biggie everything is working well now client is happy.

What I did notice with the eMachine was the underpowered PSU only 250watts that could become a problem as well because of the OEM Intel processors they cheap out on the heatsink fan combo.

Cheers:

Just get a new microATX mobo that you like. I had this happen to me and I didn't have any problems getting windows to work on my new mobo with the old HD. But a had a T series emachine.

OR you can do what I did and spend 500$ish to have a pretty nice rig.

As I understand it, the key thing to have is a retail copy of Win XP Home. I'm still trying to track one down - everyone seems to have an OEM version, which is no better than the OEM version that came w/ the eMachines. I really don't feel like spending $100 for a copy, given that I'm already licensed. If I've missed something and there's another work-around, feel free to bring it....

If it's a Bestec, get that sucker out of there - it's an effing TIME BOMB!!! It was the failure of the PS that took out my mobo, processor, and keyboard. I will never buy another thing from Gateway/eMachines - I'd sooner join up with the Taliban.

I've received and installed the replacement mobo, but the cpu is attached to the heatsink. How do I install the cpu when the attached heatsink is in the way of the clip?

thanks for the reply. Any suggestions on how to gently detach the cpu from heatsink? it seems like it's stuck there pretty tight.

I would suggest that you gently twist the CPU from the heatsink just be sure not to bend any of the pins the problem is that the compond has acted as an adhesive. Just be cautious and it should come apart and remember to clean off the old compond and replace with new thermal grease.

Cheers

windows...

ok i dont know if anyone has said this or not i kinda gave up reading halfway threw the second page but the original windows can still be used, and on any motherboard... after installing the new board and the system boots, boot from the oem windows xp cd that came with the hardware, when you get to a screen that askes you to format the partition there should be an option to repair the existing coppy of windows... usually by pressing R. this will set up windows with your new mobo and allow you to keep all your settings and data. some machines will ask you to reregister your ccoppy, all you have to do is call windows, tell them your situation and they will give you the correct codes. and, as for the person that got beep beep beep beeeep thats usually incorrectly installed or bad ram.

if twisting dosent work be extreamly carefull and slide the corner of a razor between the heatspreader and the heatsink, this will break suction that is created by the thermal compound expanding and contracting

DPDISXR4Ti

Ok! I will be happy to help.

1. You need a Windows XP Disk.
2. Go to Bios and then go to Advance Tools and then poot your CD Drive as the first boot.
3.Restart Your computer.
4.The System will Run your CD.
5. Format the Hardrive and install Windows XP
6. Windows will automatically fix your settings and run Windows normally for you.

After you installed windows XP, you will be promted to add your computer name, etc, etc. just as if you just bought the computer. If you have any more questions please e-mail me and i'll be glad to help.