On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:13 PM, ll <mlitwin3...@att.net> wrote: > We lost power yesterday. My quicksilver has been on a really > good surge protector for two years. It wasn't enough this time > however. If I push the on button,a light shows,flickers and dies. The > machine never turns on. I am assuming my hardrive is fried. Am I right > in assuming that I would have to replace the harddrive and re-install > the os?
The surge from power being restored is nothing that should cause any of the electronics in your home a problem. If it were, then you'd expect to find other casualties, no? What you're describing to me doesn't sound like a hard drive failure ... or at least not the type of failure I'm familiar with. I don't know if it is an option in your case, but what I would do is remove the hard drive, mount it in an external enclosure of some kind, and then see if I could access the files on it. Frankly if all that happened was losing power and having it restored, I would also wonder if you Mac is really dead. I suppose the power supply could be dead, but I'd at least walk through some of the basic "reset" procedures that have been mentioned on this list in the past. What have you got to lose? Though I suppose to be on the safe side you should try to save anything on your hard drive before playing around with your Mac. If you can access the data on the drive, back it up before doing any other fiddling ... just in case. -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
