Wahhh...My laptop!

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I got home from school grabed my laptop from my desk sat down turned it on and accedentaly hit the page up key (i think) when it was booting (right before windows loads up) and and came up with a blue screen saying deleteing flash memory. I had no clue what was going on and i only had like 10 seconds till it finished deleting and i was scared so I tried pressing the off button, nothing. Esc key, nothing. Ctrl alt Delete, nothing. My last choice pull the battery. I did and as you might think it turned off.....well I tried to turn it on, no response....ok? I was alittle edgy at this point. and it doesnt seem to realize there is an AC adapter pluged into it nor a battery (bettery is at full...as of now) Usualy there isa green light that says its pluged in but nothing.... My friend (very good with computers) said it doesnt know when or how to responde to the power cord...So it needs a new thing that tells it to charge or get power or turn on for that matter....I'm not sure if thats what wrong but if anyones got any ideas tells me


Laptop Model Emachines M5310
 
" Deleting flash memory".

That doesn't sound to good. Call E-Machine's customer support line or something.
 
I have and I got this guy who was like "ok , ok ya what do ya want?!" I was like ok nevermind so I called back later and got some lady who was in India and could barley speak english so I gave up on calling them...
 
You shouldn't have unplugged your laptop. You could have easily fried your motherboard. Flash memory has nothing to do with your hard drive (where your data is). Even if your Windows installation became corrupt, you could have easily reinstalled it. Your data was never in danger. So, pulling the plug was not a good idea.

I say you fried the motherboard. Take it to a computer repair shop. They can test to see if voltage is running through the board. If there is none, it's fried.
 
Don't buy emachines. I've heard from a good source (a guy that works there) that they build their computers to break down very easily so they can get paid revenue for fixing them.

emachines = bad.
 
Emachines did suck, until Gateway bought them. Since then their pcs have been decent quality. Now, if it's a few years old(like 2) you might have gotten a crappy one.

Still, I'd try customer service again.
 
Emach. buys thier parts from Tobisha (the company everyone buys their parts from) so they should be good. I mean dell just buys a bunch a misfit parts and jacks up the price so Emach. is good. Also if I fried the motherboard I can keep my harddrive right? my friend said I couldnt, but the motherboard doesnt affect HDD just video and sound and RAM....
 
Originally posted by Acid X
Don't buy emachines. I've heard from a good source (a guy that works there) that they build their computers to break down very easily so they can get paid revenue for fixing them.

emachines = bad.
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That's known as slander. They could sue you for that.

:odd: :confused: How can they build them to break? They'll use the same bits that everyone else does.

And high on life, hold down the power button for 4 secs and the PC will switch off.
 
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Also if I fried the motherboard I can keep my harddrive right? my friend said I couldnt, but the motherboard doesnt affect HDD just video and sound and RAM....
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Yes, you can keep your hard drive.

If you did fry your motherboard, you don't replace it. Like most computer hardware like monitors, printers, CD drives, etc., you don't fix them, you buy new ones. Why? It's cheeper.
 
HIGH ON LIFE
Emach. buys thier parts from Tobisha (the company everyone buys their parts from) so they should be good. I mean dell just buys a bunch a misfit parts and jacks up the price so Emach. is good. Also if I fried the motherboard I can keep my harddrive right? my friend said I couldnt, but the motherboard doesnt affect HDD just video and sound and RAM....
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Sorry to revive an old thread, but i had the same problem with my toshiba not long ago. I turned it off manually because windows was not responding, and it went into a sulk for 1 week. I'd plugged in ac adpator, taken out the battery, everything, and suddenly it turned on when i tried it one day.
Don't get too excited about toshiba! I've had pages full of problems from my satelite equium since january this year - the time it hit 3 months old.
 
i got a new laPTOP for free and if this dies of the same problem i can get all my money back from the laptop and the warrenty and that alot of money so i could take my business elsewhere...
 
I've got a beef with Emachines. I've got a T3256 desktop. It supposedly has an Athlon 3200+ processor, a 160 gig harddrive, and 512 megs of ram.
I'm not sure if they gipped me on the processor, but I've actually got 448 megs of ram, and a 149 gig harddrive.
 
No, eMachines didn't gyp you.

Most laptops use Integrated Graphic Processors. Basically, they're video cards built into the motherboard. These Integrated Graphic Processors use part of the system memory for video storage, since they do not have their own dedicated memory. This is called Shared Memory. Let's say your IGP uses 64 MB of Shared Memory, that leaves 448 MB of system memory for other tasks.

As for the hard drive problem, no, there is nothing wrong with your hard drive. Look up the definition of Gigabyte. Windows is reporting the size of the drive just fine, the problem is that the hard drive manufacturers don't follow the same standard.
 
I found out the other day, that my "tiny" desktop pc, which we bought about 4 years ago, doesn't actually have the proccessor i thought it did. We were told by tiny that it had a 2.8ghz one, and i found it only has 1.8. That sucks. But, it did get me through times of trouble when the toshiba had decided that it didn't want to live anymore.
 
HIGH ON LIFE
I have and I got this guy who was like "ok , ok ya what do ya want?!" I was like ok nevermind so I called back later and got some lady who was in India and could barley speak english so I gave up on calling them...
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Haha, you have to love it when companies outsource their customer support to low-wage countries. Especially when it's about laptops, now people who won't ever be able to afford one will have to help you trying to get it to work. :ouch: :scared:
 
Slicks
I've got a beef with Emachines. I've got a T3256 desktop. It supposedly has an Athlon 3200+ processor, a 160 gig harddrive, and 512 megs of ram.
I'm not sure if they gipped me on the processor, but I've actually got 448 megs of ram, and a 149 gig harddrive.
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That's correct. That's because of the binary to metric conversion. 1kb = 1000bytes in metric, 1024 in binary. That multiplied by 3 should indicate that you get about 7% less bytes in your computer than displayed when you buy it. Lost in the conversion, but they are in your computer.
 
Acid X
Don't buy emachines. I've heard from a good source (a guy that works there) that they build their computers to break down very easily so they can get paid revenue for fixing them.

emachines = bad.
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I have to disagree with you there...I have a eMachines 533id2. Original specs:
533 mhz Celeron
15Gb HDD
Samsung DVD-Rom
64mb memory
I bought this 5-6 years ago....the only problem I've had is the DVD-Rom starting acting up...I replaced it and it had worked fine ever since. In fact, I've added 256mb memory, Ethernet card, Lite-On CDRW from another computer that I had upgraded (to go along the USB link DVD drive I replaced the original with), intstalled XP and have never had a problem with mine......

The only problem I still have is that I can't find a way to add or replace the current HDD.....

It is all luck of the draw...if someone could consistantly make the best product they could, everyone would be buying them or would want them. I could give a example but that would be really off topic.....

btw...if anyone in the DC area is interested, I'm selling it since I don't need it anymore....
 
Viper Zero
Is there a reason why you hate Toshibas?
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Because i've had a hell of a lot of trouble from it considering it was only a few months old.

I'm now back on the ridiculous tiny desktop, as it's broken again. I'm getting to the point where i feel there's no point in saving anything on the hard drive because it will just crash and my data will be lost, AGAIN.
 
make sure you power source is off!!!........you just get a screw-driver unscrew the the screws(go figure) then pull out the connections into the HDD get the new HDD place the little plastic connector in your choice of Slave, Master w/Slave Present, Master w/o Slave...then make your connections and screw it in....then the final step get your windows(or what ever OS) restart disk and load your choice of OS onto it and you're done
 

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