Long story short...I got home, tried to turn on my computer & nothing happened. Ordered new Power Supply, installed and still nothing. Checked new power supply installed into different desktop and it worked perfect. Re-installed new Power Supply into my desktop and also removed button battery on motherboard for 10min and retried, but still nothing. So my question is what else could be wrong? Is the motherboard fried? I removed my hard drive and installed into a different desktop as a slave drive so I could at least access some files I needed to get to so I know my hard drive is still good. Any help of info would be appreciated! Part 2 of my question is....With my hard drive hooked up in another desktop as the slave drive I am able to access all my files except any files I had saved on my desktop and any pics I had saved in mypics/mydocuments. Are those files still on my hard drive and just can't be accessed because it is hooked up as a slave drive on another persons system? It would be nice if I could just set up another profile on this persons system and make their original hard drive tie into their profile only and make my hard drive tie into my profile only. Thank you again in advance!

1. Yes, motherboard or CPU. 2. Your files are private and encoded, this is the beauty of NTFS, if you create an account with your exact username and password, I believe you can access your files. I vaguely recall doing this once.

You may need to take ownership of the files/folders. Look at the link below to learn how. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

emachines computers are well known to have el-cheapo power supplies that tend to fail more often than average, and when the power supply fails completely, they are a lot more likely than average to damage something else, often the mboard. This is especially likely if the original PS brand is BESTEC!! If the computer will still not boot after replacing the power supply, the most likely thing is the original PS failing has fried the mboard!! Usually the mboard is all that has been damaged, and if you replace it, the system will work fine again. There are usually used mboards that were in emachines systems available on the web for a reasonable price, but make sure they have been tested and are known to work fine. You can replace the mboard with one that was not in an emachines system that can use the same cpu and ram, but in that case you will probably not be able to use an emachines Recovery CD or Recovery CD set to restore the original emachines supplied data contents of your C drive. If you want to risk trying doing that, if you need help identifying which mboard your model has, I can probably determine that for you. In most cases it was not emachines, or rather, Trigem, who makes the systems, that made the mboard - usually it was made by a major mboard maker and merely has an emachines bios version on it. The mboards themselves are not any more likely to fail than other mboards - if connected to a good power supply. ........ See response 1 in this for other emachines examples of the same thing as you are experiencing: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/... ...... Part 2 - See Othehill's link. You should not try to boot from your drive on the other computer, unless you want to give up on the emachines system and use the drive on the other computer. If the chipsets of the two computers are more than a little different, XP will often not load Windows, What you typically see in that case is the first bit of Windows graphics then a black screen, blinking cursor top left, and nothing further happens. That problem can be fixed, if you have a regular Windows XP CD, by you running a Repair-your-existing-Windows-installtion procedure without you losing any of the data on the partition Windows is on. That's often called a "Repair install" procedure, but I think it's more appropriate to call it a "Repair Setup" procedure, because what it does is run Setup again without deleting the data on the partition Windows is on first.

Test the Front Panel switch with on OHM meter. Some eMachines switches have a small circuit board attatched. Also use a flat tip screwdriver to jump the on/off conection on the Fron Panel riser on the Motherboard.(trace the Switch wires) If the screwdriver test fails, the MOBO is most likely gone. Watch the Processor Fan, it should spin-up immediately. There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.