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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on January 29, 2008, 11:28:40 am ---unplugging the burner did nothing. I've never heard of a "working" HD frying a mobo.
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You had a problem in a PC... so you took the hard drive out and put it into a known good PC... and now the other PC has the same problem as the first PC.
There is only one common link. The hard drive. It took a bit of time to damage the home mobo but I can't think of any other possible cause of the behaviour moving to the home PC.
xar256:
Kinda sounds like the hard drive's controller board got fried by the bad power supply. It happens.
One thing I like to try when stuff like that happens (so long as the system keep recognizing the drive) change the drive from master/slave to cable select of vice versa. It can make a difference sometimes.
Otherwise, pull of what data you can off it, and chuck it.
That would be my plan of attack.
ChadTower:
Oh yeah, duh, I glossed on the original power supply blowing up. It would have done the damage to the drive, which probably did the damage to the mobo, which now did the same damage to his mobo.
shardian:
yeah but what is with the reboot as soon as windows tries to come up?
ChadTower:
IDE controller. Try it with a boot device that isn't windows based to be sure.
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