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How do I replace the hard drive on my emachines PC/
Power down the eMachines computer and unplug it from the power outlet. Remove the left side panel from the computer case by removing the two screws or thumbscrews in the back and sliding the panel toward the back of the computer. Should the panel not move, check to make sure that there isn't a latch or switch on the rear of the computer case that needs to be slid downward in order to remove the panel. Not all cases will have this feature. Locate the hard drive; it should be in a 3 1/2-inch drive bay located beneath the computer's CD and DVD drives. If your computer has a floppy disc drive, the hard drive will most likely be located in a bay beneath it. Check the position of the floppy drive to make sure that you know which 3 1/2-inch drive it is. You should notice two cables plugging into the back of the hard drive; one of these is the power cable that comes from the power supply, and the other is a data cable that is connected to the computer's motherboard. Unplug the power and data cables from the rear of the hard drive, leaving nothing else plugged in to it. Remove the screws that hold it into its mounting bay, setting them aside until you need them for the new hard drive. Slide the old hard drive out of the mounting bay, being careful not to drop it or hit it against any of the motherboard's components. Set the drive aside and pick up your new hard drive, then slide the new drive into the same bay that you just took the old drive out of. Line the small holes in the side of the drive up with the holes in the mounting bay. Secure the new drive by screwing in the screws that you had previously removed, then plug in the power and data cables that you had unplugged from the previous drive. The cables will only plug in when oriented correctly, so you won't have to worry about accidentally plugging them in wrong. Once the cables have been plugged in you can put the side panel back onto the case and plug your eMachines computer in once again. Hope this helps.
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Cannot get speakers to work. ear piece works but not front or rear speakers.
External speakers usually require a power source. This may be provided by USB, power adapter or sometimes batteries.
They need to be plugged in AND switched on. And the audio plug needs to be in the audio socket - easily confused with a microphone socket
If you have checked that and they still do not work, you may have damaged wiring.
One last thing. Some digital speakers require a special digital socket - although the plug is the same. Check that your speakers are analog for use with a standard audio output!
I want to do a system recovery on a EL1200
Hi,
I work with these machines every day, this model was designed after Acer bought out Gateway(who owned Emachines).
If you provide me an email address I will send a copy of the recovery disk creation instruction that we give to all our customers to you. Then once you have made the disks you can simply put disk one of the factory restore set in the DVD drive, Power down and restart and it will boot from the restore disk and from that point on you just have to confirm and agree with the warnings from the restore program to allow it to wipe the drive and start fresh.
Hope this Helps,
Chris
I NEED A Slimtype DVD A DS8A3S DRIVER
Delete the drive in the device manager (under control panel).
Reboot the computer, go to device manager and click on drive, pick update drivers and leave on automatic. It should search your computer and the internet for the appropriate driver.
Controls locked message on screen, won't go away
Need more info. Can you tell me what operating system you have and the exact error that you see on the screen. If the error is in a box, is there anything written at the top bar of the box?
What happens when you press CTRL + ALT + DELETE at same time?
I get to my email address and the computer freezes
Does it freeze completely? Is this the first thing you do after starting the machine? Try unplugging the machine and removing the side panel, it may be caked up with dust around the cooling fans. Try cleaning them out with a small brush and vacuum cleaner.
How do i format hard drive
It can't format the drive it's using at the time.
If you don't care if it removes everything on the disk, you can boot up from the Windows 7 install disk, and the installer can format your disk.
Prevent freezing
Download ccleaner, it`s for free.
Clean and then check for errors in this program.
https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER
Login screen is up, but i don't know password
what operating system,
if xp start in safe mode by pressing the f8 key why booting then the admin account will become active use it to try and log in use either a blank password or try the word password as the password
Lost my Tool Bar and Menu bar
sounds like windows explorer is crashing. Most likely due to a virus. Please ensure that you have or your virus protection is not disabled or being disable (by a virus)
Not finding what you are looking for?