I have an eMachines computer that will not start. You press the button and nothing - no fans, no lights. I assumed it was the power supply, so I got out my power supply tester, and confirmed it wasn't putting out any voltage - it wasn't. I got a new power supply, and installed it. I pressed the button, fully expecting it to power up, but it didn't. I tested this Power supply, and it works fine. I tested teh outlet, nad it's fine. the power cord is fine, too. It must be the mobo, right? But, has anyone seen the mobo and Power supply fail together? Also, I called eMachines twice, and each time they told me a different mobo is in my computer - they can't even get the MODEL of my computer correct!!! It's one of their proprietary ones, can anyone tell me where I can get a replacement without going thru the buffons at eMachines? Thanks

"has anyone seen the mobo and Power supply fail together?" Yes. Sometimes there is even a causal link.

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I recently had the same proble-PSU took out the MB. I found replacement on ebay and system is running without any OS changes or data lost. I had T2085 emachines and it used a ECS LV7MM2. I found that the ECS MB usually goes when a PSU failure happens as this is my second experience. Len

I looked up the specs of your W2888 on the EMachines web site. As it so happens I looked up a mboard that is probably in the same series as what you have. It is in an Emachines T2642. These mboards were made by Trigem, a Korean computer company. In fact, all EMachines computers I know of are actually Trigem brand systems in EMachines boxes, with English bioses and software. Your mboard is probably one of the ones in the Trigem Imperial series. You could try emailing or phoning the EMachines web site, and ask if they any info about that series, but don't expect them to come through. Info about older models tends to disappear from the Emachines web site after about three years, and it has always been that way for that web site. Because of that there are/were several third party web sites where you can/could find info about their older models, but unfortunaely most of them have vanished in the past year or so. The only one that still has info that I can find http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/ has only info about mboards a lot older than yours. Early this year I found lots of info about this Imperial mboard series here: "Trigem Imperial-G/GV/GL/GLVE Mainboard" http://www.emachineupgraders.info/d... but unfortunately that site is now dead, as of 05/27/06. All I found today were a couple of pictures and specs of 2 of the mboards in the series: http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/m... http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/m... The one in my friends EMachine T2642 was IMPERIAL GV MBEM100979IM . There is probably info on the parent Trigem web site, but unfortunately most of the info is in Korean: http://www.trigem.co.kr/ You could try that, but make sure you load the Korean text language support when you click on that in IE for the best chance of more of it being in English. I don't know if the mboard series is called Imperial there too - in any case it is the series with the Intel® 845GV chipset. ..... What to do? All of those mboards use the same Chipset: Intel® 845GV. You could search for any used mboard that uses the same chipset, and your present cpu and ram, if they are not damaged, will likely work in any mboard that has that chipset . Or you could determine the specs and ID number of your Celeron CPU, and get any mboard that it is compatible with that cpu in it's cpu support list, but the ram you have may not work in the new mboard if it does not have the Intel® 845GV chipset. However, there's no certainty the cpu is not damaged, and ram usually isn't damaged by a PS failing, but it's possible. EMachines/Trigem systems use el-cheapo PSs, often Bestec brand, that we have had many posts about on this site, that tend to damage components connected to the mboard or the mboard itself when they fail. (Hopefully you didn't buy an el-cheapo PS or the same thing could happen to you again.)

You could also try searching on brand name computer sites using Trigem Imperial or Trigem Imperial GV or similar - many el-cheapo brand name systems use Trigem mboards. e.g. on the HP web site (Oops - It's an Imperial, and Intel Brookdale, but in the GL series: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...

By the way, if you have a small case, you may not be able to fit larger form factor physically sized mboards in your case. Measure your mboard and see if there is any extra room in the case for a larger one - the different form factors e.g. micro atx, atx, are standard sizes. You can always get a cheap generic case without a PS at a small local place that builds custom computers if you have to and put all your pieces into it.