Re: [vox-tech] blown power supply = fried MB and HDs

2007-01-18 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Bill Broadley wrote: Jonathan Stickel wrote: ... Anyway, I am wondering if there is still any hope in recovering the data on the hard drive. From what I can tell, the drive is not even spinning There is no fuse that I know of, and if it's not even trying it sounds pretty bad. up. The b

Re: [vox-tech] blown power supply = fried MB and HDs

2007-01-16 Thread Gabriel G. Rosa
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:24:13PM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > Anyway, I am wondering if there is still any hope in recovering the data > on the hard drive. From what I can tell, the drive is not even spinning > up. The bios tries to detect it, but it times out. My guess is that > the dr

Re: [vox-tech] blown power supply = fried MB and HDs

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Broadley
Jonathan Stickel wrote: I went to turn on my 3 yr old custom built desktop on Friday, there was a load "crack" sound, and the computer would not boot. After spinning the dvd drives, it would immediately reboot; no bios display or anything, even after clearing cmos and unplugging all the drives

Re: [vox-tech] blown power supply = fried MB and HDs

2007-01-16 Thread Matin Hashemi
Oh Jonathan! you just reminded me of a similar problem a few years ago I wanted to install Linux for the first time. It was on my own desktop PC at home and I ended up formatting a wrong drive :( I was very sad and as you can imagine, as a high school student I didn't know much about technica

Re: [vox-tech] blown power supply = fried MB and HDs

2007-01-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 16 Jan 07, 8:24 PM, Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I went to turn on my 3 yr old custom built desktop on Friday, there was > a load "crack" sound, and the computer would not boot. After spinning > the dvd drives, it would immediately reboot; no bios display or > anything,

[vox-tech] blown power supply = fried MB and HDs

2007-01-16 Thread Jonathan Stickel
I went to turn on my 3 yr old custom built desktop on Friday, there was a load "crack" sound, and the computer would not boot. After spinning the dvd drives, it would immediately reboot; no bios display or anything, even after clearing cmos and unplugging all the drives. I eventually traced i