Computer problem... any suggestions?

Go to your local computer store and see if they have an old 64bit graphics card they will sell you for $5 or so... That will be the cheapest thing to test your graphics... Other than that, you could buy one of these graphics cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub... I would think you have a PCIEx16 slot, but you need to check to be sure. Google or yahoo search the motherboard #'s or your emachine model number to find out which slot you have... There is still a possibility it is your motherboard altogether, meaning a graphics card isn't going to fix the problem... Another unlucky thing, I have fried all 4 sticks of ram at the same time before, the motherboard and ram both was fried. Most of the time this is caused by a heat issue... Emachines are notorious for being lacking in the cooling dept...

If I knew which processor you are running I could give you an idea of a micro ATX board you could go ahead and buy, instead of a graphics card. For one if it turns out that the onboard graphcis chip is the problem on your current board, most likely the problem is going to move throughout the board later down the road. You can get good micro ATX boards with onboard graphics for $50 and would eliminate you having to buy that extra graphics card.

It definitely sounds like you need a higher wattage power supply, 200W is not enough. I also have an Emachine XP SP2 and upgraded the 250W power supply that came with it. Insufficient power could damage your motherboard - everything that's plugged into your computer depends on the power supply, even adding RAM.

Good luck.

Try staring up windows task manager and if you have any idea of anything close down programs that might start running on startup that you aren't using such as AIM Yahoo Messenger and even other spyware software. Don't mess with something if you don't know what it is you could create more problems. And dont close iexplorer.exe. Normally most of the things that have the account name under user can be closed.

Hey Bro

very sad news

i also had the same problem a year back

then i also tried the same things

but my issue was of VGA card

and therefore, i bought a new vga and my problem was solved

and now evrythng is going fine

and now if u r a gamer,or have to work with the stuff like video n image editing

then go for a good and strong build card

i would prefer to go for XFX

rest is yours choice

best of luck

regards

Sounds like a driver issue. You need an updated video driver. Also, check all cables and connections to make sure every one is nice and tight. You may be able to download the driver from the monitor's manufacturer web site from another computer, on a flash drive, and install it on the e-machines. Also, if you can find another Plug N Play monitor, try it.

Two beeps means the RAM is not working. Make sure you placing the RAM into the right slots and try again, also, they may be falling out of the RAM slots, and you may have a short on the back of your motherboard so check all of those.

The beeps indicate a hardware problem.

A bad keyboard can cause this.Most pc's won't boot without a keyboard.Borrow one or buy one they are not expensive.

as others have said before me, hard drive failing! You can try to first back-up your data on a cd or external hard drive then re format your drive. If the problem presit buy a new hard drive!

It sounds like your Hard Drive is failing.

Have you tried replacing the keyboard?