Hello all. I recently moved, and after about a month I finally set up my wife's EMachines T6520 again. It was working fine before the move, but my wife had said there were a few times that it would not boot - it just came up blank on the screen without a POST. She would simply unplug the PSU, and try it again, and it restarted properly - this happened 2 or 3 times. Anyhow, as soon as I set it up the other day, I turned it on, and it won't boot. It won't POST. The fans and HD are up and spinning, the lights are on, but it has nothing on the display. If I hold the power button long enough, sometimes it turns off, but usually it just resets, to more of the same. I tried resetting the CMOS by pulling the batt. (with PSU unplugged), but to no avail. What are the odds I have a damaged mobo? That's my only logical conclusion at this time. I have visually inspected the mobo and pulled RAM modules, re-installed, tried again, etc. Any advice would be welcomed. Thank you.

Pulling the CMOS battery was unnecssary. Hopefully you're familiar enough with BIOS settings to correct them all once you get the system to bootup, because it is the 1st thing you will need to do! If you hadn't said this problem had occurred previously, I'd have said that things probably just got knocked loose during the move. Double check that all the cards & cables are securely seated in their slots. Are you getting any beep codes? Were you getting a single beep upon bootup before you began having problems?

BTW, eMachines are notorious for having bad power supplies. Your's *may* have finally failed. It may be putting out enough juice to spin a few fans but not enough to fire up an entire system.

Jam - Thanks for the advice on the PSU - I'll see if I can swap it with my good PC and give that a shot. No beep codes - it won't do anything, no poweronselftest, so I can't get into the BIOS.