My Roomie’s old emachines T2080 crapped out, it won’t even turn on. Okay, well, it turns on, but doesn’t post or even go to the BIOS. I replaced the power supply (250w), to no avail, and tried dropping a new CPU in it to see if either worked. No dice.
My first assumption was that if it was a corrupted HD, which my other roomie postulated, then it would at least Boot before hanging. Am I right about that?
The RAM looks ok, I’ve heard that if it were fried it would look darker in spots than normal. So, I’m willing to bet that the mobo is fried. Fair assumption?
If the mobo is fried then the processor likely is as well, right? I found my roomie a deal on a microATX, 184-pin ram PC Chips mobo w/ an Intel LGA-775 socket and Pentium D 3.2 GHz CPU (kiss that old AMD 1.16 goodbye!) for like $84 and I’m pretty sure that this will fix the problem.
Does anyone else have any advice about this? Anything y’all can contribute would rock as this is only the 5th or 6th PC I’ve dismantled and rebuilt.
-Dan
