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Hi Danzil, Have sorted out most of problems, you were right jumper not connected for sound, silly me. The only problem i have now is that i am not getting sound from left speaker, i know it works because of my old pc. But if that is my only problem i can live with it. Thanks again Regards Chas

HI Danzil, I now have new motherboard in and working, sort of! When i booted up with everything connected, all good, the only message i had from windows was to enter the COA and register my copy of XP, which i did, and windows started up ok. Other than that the only problem is my wireless mouse started working, then stopped, so had to plug in ps2 mouse instead. I am getting no sound, have loaded drivers that came with board, still no sound. Windows says everything is ok, so not sure what that is! The other strange thing is my mouse pointer, when hovering over some areas of screen, mostly writing i get a small black box appear to the roght of the arrow. When hovering over a http link it goes away, can't understand it. Anyway will keep playing and hope i get it sorted. Thanks for all your help, much apperciated Chas

I have just sent email to the seller regarding sending it back. Thanks Danzil

Hi Danzil, I have just got in, and i have removed the new board from casing and placed it on a cardboard box, plugged in the power supply (big connector and the 4 pin cpu black and yellow wires) shorted for a second the power switch and still nothing. I have nothing connected to board, no ram and no cpu. The fans on the power supply do not run, but if i plug into my old baord the fans do run. I bought this board from ebay shop as new, but it is surprisingly dusty for a new board! I have not gone through the other suggestions you gave, as i thougt if it does not work on the box, it won't work when in casing. Regards Chas.

Hi Danzil, I have today received my my new main board. A slight problem, i put it all together, and the power supply does not turn on! So removed everything, and had the moin board and power supply only, still power supply will not come on. Bearing in mind this is a new power supply. So i connected the old main board, and the power supply starts up! Could the new main board be faulty? Or am i doing something wrong? Regards Chas

Hi Danzil, I have yesterday ordered a replacement main board, an Asrock P4i65G Socket 478 Motherboard at what I thought was a very reasonable cost of £28.94 including p&p. I do not know whether it is any good or not, but the write up seems ok and it seems similar to my old main board. I will use my original cpu Pentium 4 3.0ghz, same ram and graphics card. Hopefully! I will try as you suggest and make an xp cd from the i386 directory; the xp key is on the rear of the casing. But will worry about that when I receive new main board. Thanks again for your help, I will let you know how I get on. Regards Chas

Hi Danzil, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I do not have a spare CPU or main board. The emachines pc was my main pc. I have pulled out my old celeron 500, win98 to access the Internet. If get a replacement main board, can I use my old hard drive with the new board? I only have the rescue disks that came with the pc, and not a full copy of XP. I have read that if the hard drive does not recognise the main board it will not run. I guess the power supply has blown the main board! Is it possible the CPU has gone as well? If I fit the original CPU to a new main board, and it is faulty will it blow the new board, or just not work. Thanks for your help.

Hi Danzil, I have done as you suggest, removed the cmos battery for about an hour. Replaced battery fitted a working power supply. Power on and nothing, the HDD light comes on and stays on, but no noise from HDD. Also power light comes on, CPU fan and case fan runs but nothing else. I have removed/disconnected graphics card, floppy drive, card reader, usb connectors and cd/dvd drive. All that is connected is RAM and HDD. Still nothing, not even the post bleep. Thanks for your help.

Will do, thanks. Will let you know the outcome.

Hi, i have an emachines 8210 running win XP home. 3 years old. When i powered it on the other day, it started to load and then shut down. Left it until next morning and found pc was on, when i say on the power light and the hdd light was on and the fans running, but screen was dead. It would not power off with the power switch, so had to unplug from mains. Every time i plug the mains in, the lights come on and fans run, without touching front power on switch. Any help would be Appreciated.