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Be sure to keep an eye on those power supply pin-outs if you are not already 
doing so, if I remember correctly E-Machines uses their own crazy ATX pinout 
so that you have to buy a powersupply from them.

Specifically compare your old power supply with your new one and make sure 
there are the same number of pins (look for a missing pin on one and not on 
the other, etc).

If you are using a compatible replacement powersupply and it's  still not 
working, its almost definately the Motherboard, not the CPU. Repaired quite a 
few of these in a PC Tech shop in a former life.

-Kt



On Tuesday 31 March 2009 13:37:12 Charles Shapiro wrote:
> So a friend of mine has a dead E-machines D2046 which I've been attempting
> to bring back to life.  It did not respond to the power switch at all. I
> easter-egged out everything but  the MB and got no change,  so I went out
> and bought a $20, 380 watt power supply at Fry's and installed that.  Alas,
> it still has no heartbeat and no breathing. So I'm trying to decide whether
> to try replacing  the CPU  ( 2 gb Celeron) first, or just grit my teeth and
> buy a whole new ATX motherboard.  Thoughts?
>
> -- CHS