revealr

First of thanks to all those who are makeing this forum possible!

Second, and yes I know it's sad, I have an emachine. Worse than that it does not work! lol

Ok the prob... I was tasked with putting a 'customer' computer in the waiting area of our Honda store and decided to save money by using old components from verious broken rigs around the store... the prob accured when I tried to load the operation system onto the new hard drive IN the emachine. It would not alow the op to load the set up menu etc. I took the drive out and pluged it into oneof the open slots on an IBM in the store, loaded the op and then put it back into the emachine thinking all would be grand... IT WAS NOT. The emachine would not allow the fresh install to load. (even though I tested it to work fine on the SAME HD in another pc)

So the question then is simple... do emachines have some sort of 'preventive security' bared in the bios or on the mother board that will prevent people like me from adding third party hard ware or software other than emachine's own stuff??

Thanks for the reply in advance.


Travis

IT-Tech

Hi and Welcome!

The answer is NO.

What is happening is pretty simple, but also complex. Basically, the hardware on the IBM and Emachine's PC do not match. You can't take a hard drive out of one system and put it into a different system that does not have similar hardware.

What you need to do is figure out WHY the Emachine's PC will not take a load.

You also didn't mention what operating system you were trying to load. XP, VISTA, or ????.

What type of media are you using? XP or VISTA retail, OEM, Volume License, etc?

Which brings us to another possible issue.... are you performing a "legal" installation?

Most common issue for XP not loading for installation is that you are using a standard XP CD without Service Pack 2. If you slipstream your installation CD it will probably work.

Tumbleweed36

We need more information, so please list all your specs including video card and brand name and wattage of the power supply, motherboard specs.

Then, make sure you tell us if the hard drive you are trying to install is a new one or an old one. If it is Sata, please list what it is. If IDE, tell us how you have hooked it up like how is it jumpered, what else is on the ribbon cable and where is it listed on the ribbon cable. Please also list all the brand names of hard drives.

revealr

Thanks for getting back with me gents!

Specs:
- Video is onboard
- HD Segate st340015a (master)
- Mobo k7-mnf64
- Ram 256 Samsong PC3200
- DVD Rom HP sohc-4836k (master)
- OS Win 7 Evolution Copy 32bit
- PS Bestec 250wat

All parts are used... I had no prob loading the OS on the drive BUT when I put it into the eMachine it starts to initialize but then fails at the windows 7 load screen. If I pull it out and put it into any number of other machines and it works fine.



Update: I put the drive in another box (w/ IBM board) and am currently using that for our customer lounge... so that's good, but I still need to get this emachine working.

I am installing win7 on another drive today and try putting that in the eMachine. (40gig fireball 3)

IT-Tech

Well, one of your major problems already is that you do not have a enough RAM to run Windows 7.

1GB required for x86 and 2GB required for x64.

Here are the system requirements for Windows 7:

http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements

Thanks!

raptor_pa

It is probably not going to work for the same reason, the Motherboard and proc are different and the HAL ( hardware abstraction layer) is built for the hardware the system is installed on....

revealr

Thanks, however I am running Win 7 with a 256mb stick in another system in the showroom area of our store w/ no prb atm. It runs a bit slow though. I will go ahead and upgrade the ram after reading this.

Will Win 7 Evo stop working after a time?