Okay, first off I'm guessing that my PSU is bad on my eMachine T3958, since it will no longer power on. The odd thing is that it happened after I moved the tower (all power was disconnected) and I discovered that one of the card slot covers had been left inside the tower and I thought that it may have caused a short when it moved around inside the tower a little. Now in looking at these covers they doh't appear to be the best conductive material, but possibly good enough for shorting/frying something.
There werre some pre-symptoms that I thought were software related, but may have the PSU going bad. One of the symptoms was the inability to shut down or reboot the PC. I had to simply power it off.
I only paid $100 for the unit and it has worked just fine for several weeks.
I have read MANY, MANY stories of eMachine PSU's going bad and taking motherboards with them. Is this ALWAYS the case? I'm going to see if I can borrow a PSU from one of my older PC's at work, so at least I won't be losing any more money if my motherboard IS bad.
Any other thoughts or answers to the "Does the motherboard ALWAYS go, too?"
Thanks,
JP
There werre some pre-symptoms that I thought were software related, but may have the PSU going bad. One of the symptoms was the inability to shut down or reboot the PC. I had to simply power it off.
I only paid $100 for the unit and it has worked just fine for several weeks.
I have read MANY, MANY stories of eMachine PSU's going bad and taking motherboards with them. Is this ALWAYS the case? I'm going to see if I can borrow a PSU from one of my older PC's at work, so at least I won't be losing any more money if my motherboard IS bad.
Any other thoughts or answers to the "Does the motherboard ALWAYS go, too?"
Thanks,
JP