Solve : It won't run?

1.	Solve : It won't run?
Answer» If you open the hood, can you tell if the engine has good compression or is burning oil? BTW, disk drives are not serviceable, but you can run tests on them, if it starts (spins).spins, that is why it's called a disk drive, duh, I'm getting it but am a little slow on the uptake it seems. Well, wish me luck, I'm going in. I take it with the cover off and the machine turned on there is a mechanism in there that will be big enough to have something spinning INSIDE of it and this will be the disk that the machine says isn't there and in my very plain terms, no SPINNY no worky? right? hmm I wonder if it doesn't work can I take the disk drive outta this Gateway and put it in there or is that like trying to put Ford parts in a Chevy? Thanks again, but ya gotta tell me what the little penguin thing is about with my IP address and stuff. It kinda freaks me outQuote from: benton1964 on October 18, 2009, 03:48:13 PM ...ya gotta tell me what the little penguin thing is about with my IP address and stuff... The internet is not ANONYMOUS. How do you think the Feds track down CRIMINALS? Look at every post in every thread, lower right hand corner, "IP Logged". Hard drive looks like this: Hard disk drive How Hard Disks Work Like putting a Ford engine into a Ford car, but there's many different size engines/transmissions. Gotta have the right engine for the transmission.OK thanks for the visual there is nothing in there that resembles that, I was looking at a square box thing with a fan on it that connects to a circuit board via a pair of clamps that everything connects toso with my IP logged in this site knows even what operating system I'm using? kinda spooky but I'm getting over itQuote from: benton1964 on October 18, 2009, 04:19:33 PM OK thanks for the visual there is nothing in there that resembles that, I was looking at a square box thing with a fan on it that connects to a circuit board via a pair of clamps that everything connects to It's there, you probably will see it from the side, not the top. Look for a wide flat grey cable from the big main circuit board (motherboard).I have removed this UNIT again as when I replaced it before when I turned it back on the machine wouldn't operate at all, a closer inspection of it shows that the reverse side of it has many little pins and in my hamfisted way i bent one of those pins, attempting repairsUm OK I have the flat cable located there are two, one goes to the cd rom drive the other goes nowhereIn your 1st post, you said it had a 100GB hard drive, maybe it's disconnected. There's 2 cables to each drive: data (the flat one) and power (red, yellow, black wires). Drives can share the data cable, if it has 3 connectors.I only said it had a 100 gig hard drive because that is what the machine says on the front cover, the boot menu kept telling me there is no hard drive and now that you've shown me the picture and explained that one of those flat cables plug into it I can see that the drive isn't broken or damaged, it simply isn't there. Thank you for the information, I'm going to open the Gateway now and see if I can steal the drive from it. That's what i get from buying a 20 dollar 'puter at a yard saleInstalling a PC IDE/EIDE hard driveOK I have extracted the hard drive from the gateway it is an odd device on the other thread (SCSI isn't there) I was saying that the tower had two CD drives and two floppys. I was wrong. One of those "floppys" is the hard drive it has a door, it's some kind of tape player, maybe it isn't a hard drive at all?well the drives are incompatible, the pins are different from the gateway to the emachine and whatever I did by removing the square thing with the fan (some type of heat sink I deduce) destroyed the emachine anyway. Target practice it is! I just want to thank everyone here who posted on this thread and the other I started, I have learned quite a bit and I can take this knowledge and move on to the next project.

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If you open the hood, can you tell if the engine has good compression or is burning oil?
BTW, disk drives are not serviceable, but you can run tests on them, if it starts (spins).spins, that is why it's called a disk drive, duh, I'm getting it but am a little slow on the uptake it seems. Well, wish me luck, I'm going in. I take it with the cover off and the machine turned on there is a mechanism in there that will be big enough to have something spinning INSIDE of it and this will be the disk that the machine says isn't there and in my very plain terms, no SPINNY no worky? right? hmm I wonder if it doesn't work can I take the disk drive outta this Gateway and put it in there or is that like trying to put Ford parts in a Chevy?
Thanks again, but ya gotta tell me what the little penguin thing is about with my IP address and stuff. It kinda freaks me outQuote from: benton1964 on October 18, 2009, 03:48:13 PM

...ya gotta tell me what the little penguin thing is about with my IP address and stuff...

The internet is not ANONYMOUS. How do you think the Feds track down CRIMINALS? Look at every post in every thread, lower right hand corner, "IP Logged".

Hard drive looks like this:

Hard disk drive

How Hard Disks Work

Like putting a Ford engine into a Ford car, but there's many different size engines/transmissions. Gotta have the right engine for the transmission.OK thanks for the visual there is nothing in there that resembles that, I was looking at a square box thing with a fan on it that connects to a circuit board via a pair of clamps that everything connects toso with my IP logged in this site knows even what operating system I'm using? kinda spooky but I'm getting over itQuote from: benton1964 on October 18, 2009, 04:19:33 PM

OK thanks for the visual there is nothing in there that resembles that, I was looking at a square box thing with a fan on it that connects to a circuit board via a pair of clamps that everything connects to

It's there, you probably will see it from the side, not the top. Look for a wide flat grey cable from the big main circuit board (motherboard).I have removed this UNIT again as when I replaced it before when I turned it back on the machine wouldn't operate at all, a closer inspection of it shows that the reverse side of it has many little pins and in my hamfisted way i bent one of those pins, attempting repairsUm OK I have the flat cable located there are two, one goes to the cd rom drive the other goes nowhereIn your 1st post, you said it had a 100GB hard drive, maybe it's disconnected. There's 2 cables to each drive: data (the flat one) and power (red, yellow, black wires). Drives can share the data cable, if it has 3 connectors.I only said it had a 100 gig hard drive because that is what the machine says on the front cover, the boot menu kept telling me there is no hard drive and now that you've shown me the picture and explained that one of those flat cables plug into it I can see that the drive isn't broken or damaged, it simply isn't there. Thank you for the information, I'm going to open the Gateway now and see if I can steal the drive from it. That's what i get from buying a 20 dollar 'puter at a yard saleInstalling a PC IDE/EIDE hard driveOK I have extracted the hard drive from the gateway it is an odd device on the other thread (SCSI isn't there) I was saying that the tower had two CD drives and two floppys. I was wrong. One of those "floppys" is the hard drive it has a door, it's some kind of tape player, maybe it isn't a hard drive at all?well the drives are incompatible, the pins are different from the gateway to the emachine and whatever I did by removing the square thing with the fan (some type of heat sink I deduce) destroyed the emachine anyway. Target practice it is! I just want to thank everyone here who posted on this thread and the other I started, I have learned quite a bit and I can take this knowledge and move on to the next project.

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