Kibble's Kar Komputer Konstruction

[2or3wheels]

I plug it in and the fans spin a few revolutions and then it does nothing. the "work light", is on, constantly. On this comp its yellow/orange. I dont know much but am pissed, waste of 100$.

 

[kibble]

Not necessarily. Do you know how to clear the CMOS? If so, try that and see what happens. I've solved many a problem by doing this first. If you don't know, open up the PC and look on the motherboard for a jumper labeled ClrCmos or something similar. Is this a particular brand of pc, like a dell or an hp or something? If so, what's the model number?

 

[2or3wheels]

Its an Emachines T2682

 

[2or3wheels]

no wtf is that and how do i do it?

 

[2or3wheels]

mr.kibble i am goin to bed, just remember i know nothing about working on comps, all i know is how to use and abuse them.

 

[kibble]

eMachines tend to be pretty bad.

Every time I've dealt with one it's been nothing but problems. I did find this, which may help you out some:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/146976-30-motherboard-problem

It's pretty much everything I could tell you to check on it without being present to help you. Keep in mind that all these require you to open up your computer and get down and dirty with it.

 

[2or3wheels]

oh its apart now, i had a few different psu's but none were the 24 or 20 pin = the 4 pin seperate. i will try those and see if it works. if it does i will be estatic, that comp has windows XP

 

[kibble]

Ummm which makes me question; If THAT one has xp, what does the one you reply from have? :arf:

 

[oscaryu1]

no wtf is that and how do i do it?

You remove the side cover, and take out the little silver battery.

Easy

If you have a reset jumper by the battery, you could also use that.

 

[ed1380]

take out teh battery and short the contacts in the battery holder for a few secs

thats what i do. much easier that messing w/ the jumpers

 

[2or3wheels]

This POS im using has Vista i want my old comp back. Btw no battery its a desktop

 

[Kenny_McCormic]

This POS im using has Vista i want my old comp back. Btw no battery its a desktop

All of them have a small coin battery for holding bios settings. Vista sucks, go pirate some XP.

 

[oscaryu1]

This go kart forum needs a new rule: Don't talk about pirating software D)

 

[oscaryu1]

This POS im using has Vista i want my old comp back. Btw no battery its a desktop

It won't be a AA battery you see in your camera. Silver, coin size, around a quarter size. Should be close to your CMOS chip somewhere.

 

[kibble]

Yeah, what kenny said. Battery should look like this pic. Notice where the blue jumper that says: CLRTC. What you would do in this case, is move the jumper to the other two pins temporarily and then move them back. That would clear all system setting stored information and possibly allow your computer to turn on. Then, just select default settings when it asks you.

 

[kibble]

This POS im using has Vista i want my old comp back. Btw no battery its a desktop

BTW, did you ever get your pc to work?

 

[kibble]

Finally got around to putting up some more pics of progress. These are basically just pics of what the mount looks like and how it's put into the car. I tried to make the mount so that it wouldn't require cutting of any part of the trim in the car. It bolts down to 4 places where screws and nuts were already present.

The mount holds the monitor really stable and despite the monitor being really heavy, it doesn't bounce around much. I have two hinges on the monitor; one so that it allows the monitor to swing over to the passenger side and another that lets you adjust it so it faces up more.

In one of the monitor pics, you can see my ghetto DVI cable going into the monitor. That's still in progress.

The only thing not shown here is how the top part of the mount goes together with the lower part. I forgot to take pics of that.

 

[ed1380]

holy ****. thats not a distraction or anything. lol

i was thinking. where do you mount a 15" monitor?

 

[kibble]

Honestly, I didn't want a 15" monitor! I wanted more like a 10" or so, but the resources were there and I was able to make this one a touchscreen which makes everything a HECK of a lot easier to navigate!

 

[oscaryu1]

You drive an Infiniti? SHAME! SHAME!!1!1! Jkjk