Can you get into the bios of your mobo (hit delete on boot up)?

I just dropped it off at a repair store, the boot screen does not come up at all, the system drive is not spinning at all.

jeff

If you reset your CMOS, that works sometimes. There may be a jumper to short it out and reset the cmos or you can pull the battery on your motherboard for a few minutes.

Too bad, its probably toast.

I've been giving my credit card a workout buying some new electronic goodies and this is too funny not to repeat. Nearly everything now has a page or two of common sense warnings in their manuals for shock, fire hazard, etc..

I forget which product it was, but this cracked be up. The device came with a couple of A/C outlets on the back that you can plug other things into. That's common of course, however what the manual says about it wasn't.

"...switched and unswitched A/C outlets should be used for audio equipment only, do not plug in a hair dryer or similar household devices."

Darn, I was going to plug my vacuum clearer into it.

It could be anything. I guess the first thing to try is to swap in a replacement power supply ($25). There's an excellent chance the problem stops there. Next would come an identical motherboard ($100, if available), and then the CPU chip ($50). You could quickly move your hard drive to another system as a slave to see if anything comes up inside. If no, the data could still be salvageable if the drive controller pcb was swapped out.

Good luck. I've heard of storms knocking out TVs and PCs, but it's never happened to me (yet).

The only damaged I have ever suffered from storms/electric surges has been the firewire ports on my system getting blown not to mention my Hollywood DV Bridge. Other than that, I have been fairly fortunate.

I had my motherboard replaced, seems everything else is fine and I did not lose any data. Cost $210 for Mobo and labor. They spent more time on the phone with microsoft to authorize the OS. It is taking time to get some of my drivers sorted out and my cable internet back. Guess I will hang on to this computer a while longer.

close one, I assume that you will have EVERTHING surge protected from now on =)

Dave

I moved the cable modem power to my surge protector, however, I don't have one for the coaxial cable, I need to look into that, saw a low cost belkin on line that I am considering.

jeff