I NEED help with my Emachines

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Ok, so. I have an Emachines T1400. And apparently it does not exist, or at least the parts for it. the motherboard fried a long time ago, and i replaced it, and after 2 months it fried again. The guy who installed it refused to replace it, so i refused to spend another $200 on it. Now, I have my laptop, but I can't use it in recording, and I'm just starting to get into recording so I didn't know. I'm relatively good with my hands and computers, although i've never actually installed something like this, i was able to successfully pull out the old one without breaking anything. I know the basic rules with computer equipment, but not a whole lot, so does anyone have any suggestions on what to get for a motherboard, or, for that matter, if there are any available for this model computer? Reason being, I don't mind spending, say, 60-80 bucks on a motherboard if it gives me a computer to record on, even if it is kind of slow. Thanks if anyone has any helpful comments, cause i just cannot find anything on ebay for this model so I'm lost.
 
Get another case/power supply, and put a new motherboard in that. You can transfer over your RAM, peripherals and drives, and if you get the same or a similar motherboard as the one you had, windows should hardly hiccup when you start up with it, other than detecting new devices (well really old devices but it will probably re-detect them like you just installed them).

In any case, once you burn up two MB's in a row, you pretty much have to suspect a bad power supply, and new cases cost just little more and come with one.
 
yeha, that's definitely it. thanks a ton man. Also, is it possible to install something like PCI into it? I'm just not sure cause the computer is like, from 2000 and i don't know how "recent" PCI is.
 
If that picture is accurate, it looks like the motherboard has 3 PCI slots and one AGP slot. "PCI" refers to the type of expansion slot.
 
I am not seeing the PCI, care to explain? I know what the firewire jack looks like, but no idea on PCI what to look for.
 
PCI = What your video card/modem/soundcard and other devices are like. Turn your computer around, note the bottom of the case, you'll see various inputs/outputs. All of those are PCI.

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ok, so i can use ANY of those to hook up something like a mixer to? Because im' getting a mackie 1202, so would i need something like the maudio delta1010 in order to connect the mackie to the computer?
 
I just got the motherboard replaced in my emachine about a week ago and ended up doing the power supply too. I can't remember the model # of mine but it's about 3 years old anyway. I was able to get a motherboard for it no problem and keep the original case so you should be ok. Definitely upgrade your power supply though. If you get the delta 1010 you can just drop that into an available pci slot and configuration is pretty easy. (trust me if I can do it) :D
 
So i do need the delta for sure? I wasn't %100 sure if there was no other way. Gah. So expensive. Is there any like, cheap $40 option for at least the time being?
 
It doesn't have to be the delta 1010, you can get the audiophile 2496 for around $80 as long as you don't need more than 2 inputs at a time.
 
I went from a 250watt power supply to a 300watt also and its been fine now. Even have some extra power plugs off of it now so I dropped an extra hard drive in it too.
 
What about the delta1010lt? What's the difference other than the fact there's the external parts? Or is there..?
 
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