AMOCO

I'm working on a clients pc(Emachines T6216,Desktop),It was working fine then it shut down.Tried to restart & no luck,The power light is flashing & when I press it(Nothing).I removed the battery & unplugged it,Then put back battery & plugged it back in.Then it restarts for a couple of seconds,Then turns off & the power light starts flashing again.

It's the PSU,Right?

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EMP7Y

Often after the CMOS has been cleared, when the computer is powered back on it will go on for a second, off, then back on. So that explains the on off after removing the battery

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FatalityxZ

Loose RAM? Does the motherboard make noises?

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AMOCO

no noises,have not touched the ram

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EMP7Y

For good measure, you could try to reseat everything, including RAM, CPU, Gfx (if there's a card)
Also make sure the PSU is connected properly and nothing is loose, double check the 4/8 pin CPU power cable if there is one

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rmvvwls

Very likely the psu. I've heard that the psu's in those emachines are terrible.
But like the others are saying, reseat everything first, and eliminate everything but the psu.

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AMOCO

Ok,Thanks for all your input,I solved it.It was the PSU,I took mine out of my secondary rig to check & now it's booting up,I will get a new PSU for it tomorrow.Thanks again all.

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AMOCO

Well it was Not the PSU,As I thought it was.It has 2 sticks of 256mb.ram,So I pulled 1 out & I have an extra CPU(AMD Athlon 3700+)so I put that in it too.Well it booted & I preceded to install XP,Well everything was working fine,THEN I put the other stick of ram & the CPU(That came with it)back in.It booted in to XP,So I went to install the Updates & it shut down again
I said well **it.But as I started looking real close at the area around the CPU socket,I noticed,That there was like 4 bulging caps.So I guess the motherboard was bad.
So I call the guy & told him & he gave the thing to me.
I gutted it,I put the 3 yr. old Pioneer DVR-112DBK in my wifes pc & put the 160gb. hdd in my old pc as a backup for my music.I'm giving the ram to my sister in law.

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SLeeZeY

This is an Emachine, change the PSU anyway because I guarantee it will burn out. The Caps and hardware failures are the PSU on its way out, cooking stuff.

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AMOCO

It alrdy burnt,won;t stay running at all,even with a good cpu,psu,& ram.I tried it all,Still won't run.I think they ran it 24/7 for 4 yrs.,because when he was telling my what happen,He said his son moved the mouse the next morn,To bring computer out of standby.

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