Emachines 466i Etower not working

[twiztidtruckie]

Hey...

A little while back while trying to set-up this older emachine Etower 446i, It was zapped by a storm. I just fired it up for the first time since this incident and now it wont stay running more than 30seconds. I swapped the power supply, cleared cmos, reformatted, and added 98se, and also changed the cpu fan.

Any help would be great!!!

Truckie

[twiztidtruckie]

Antoher thing:

It works after about the 10th power on....but it also turns on by itself occassionally?

[John Prophet]

pull all the pci cards....maybe the modem is fried and is shorting it out....have seen it several times.

[John Prophet]

look at the motherboard and see if the any of the capacitors are bulged on the top...if so, they need replacing and then hopefully nothing else on the board is fried, lol.

[twiztidtruckie]

Nope...pulled all the pci cards and still is happening?

[twiztidtruckie]

No bulging caps...i have it sitting beside me here....nothing seems outta wack, but it does work after the 10th reboot.

[uethello]

Maybe your power switch is crapped.

If it was really hit by lightning, just throw it away. There's no telling what got fried and if you put money into it, you'll find you're eventually going to put in more than what it's worth.

[John Prophet]

yeah, get u a nice microatx board and cpu..youll have the fattest emachine around!

You could always put the guts of a Mac in it, you'd have the first . . . eMac