I am new to the forum but you guys have the best posts on many issues. I have an Emachine W1500, WinXP home,1600AMD processor, 128MB, 40 MB hard drive. It has CDRW, and a cable modem attached via USB. When it was 3 months old I would push the power button but it would not boot, just the fans would run. If I unplugged the power cord and repluged and tried again it would come on. It only did this a few times. Now it is over a year and here we go again but for good. As is starting going out the "white emachine screen" would come up with lines in the bottom then power off. The key board will not light up. The monitor is fine, I checked it. I tried a new outlet, nothing. I can't figure this out. Please help, before I hire a tech person and pay a fortune.
Thanks