AAACK! Help!

ViperGTS19801 · 06-27-2004, 12:45 PM

My friend has a very nice Compaq desktop with a 60G hard drive. However, she couldn't get the bloody thing to start. It's obvious that it's a hard drive problem so I took the disk to my house and plugged her into one of the spare ports. Now MY computer wouldn't boot. I tried something else which wasn't too smart on my part, and I booted normally THEN plugged her in. It killed the comp. It won't even power up now.

HELP!! please?

Will · 06-28-2004, 12:28 AM

Ooh dear. You may have killed the power supply AND completely ****ed the H/D. Bad move, you can get away with plugging the likes of fan's and cathode's in, but not anything like that.

get a new PSU, and let's hope that all that has been killed.

Fure6 · 06-28-2004, 05:25 AM

i'm sorry but it sounds like you're fu<ked!! I think that's how i destroyed my fathers first laptop now to think of it...i never knew how i did it, but now i do.

Alin.s · 07-02-2004, 04:00 PM

not good you fried your powersupply and maybe evn your processor get a new Computer.

**Praetor** · 07-07-2004, 06:18 AM

All might not be doom and gloom (although it seems like it). I've had people plug brand new HDDs into live systems and have them detected on the fly (ATA100 drives mind you) -- its not reccomended but in exceptional cases, you can get away with it

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It won't even power up now.

When you hit the power, what happens? Does the CPU fan kick in? Does the PSU fan kick in? Do any LEDs on the mobo light up? Depending on your PSU (like the one ive got), you may have to disconnect the PSU for ~30 seconds before trying again (i.e., unplug it completely). Let me/us know how those tests go and we'll go from there, I would suspect you only need to replace the PSU (but test everything else thoroughly)

roy · 07-10-2004, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ViperGTS19801

My friend has a very nice Compaq desktop

Hmmm someone that thinks Compaq provide nice computers

**Praetor** · 07-10-2004, 09:39 PM

LOL OEMs do occasionally make very good systems (i.e., XPS)

06-27-2004, 12:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
ViperGTS19801 Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Pennsylvania Age: 22 Posts: 87	AAACK! Help! My friend has a very nice Compaq desktop with a 60G hard drive. However, she couldn't get the bloody thing to start. It's obvious that it's a hard drive problem so I took the disk to my house and plugged her into one of the spare ports. Now MY computer wouldn't boot. I tried something else which wasn't too smart on my part, and I booted normally THEN plugged her in. It killed the comp. It won't even power up now. HELP!! please?

06-28-2004, 05:25 AM	#3 (permalink)
Fure6 Gold Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: look at my website up above Age: 20 Posts: 312	i'm sorry but it sounds like you're fu<ked!! I think that's how i destroyed my fathers first laptop now to think of it...i never knew how i did it, but now i do. __________________ I have a dell: Number of CPUs-1 Name-Intel Pentium III EB Code name-Coppermine Specification-Intel Pentium III EB 800 MHz Memory Size-512 MBytes Windows Version-Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation (Build 2195) DirectX Version-9.0a I got a new hard drive! It's a 120GB Seagate

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06-28-2004, 12:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
Will New Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 9	Ooh dear. You may have killed the power supply AND completely ****ed the H/D. Bad move, you can get away with plugging the likes of fan's and cathode's in, but not anything like that. get a new PSU, and let's hope that all that has been killed.

07-02-2004, 04:00 PM	#4 (permalink)
Alin.s Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Palatine IL Posts: 53	not good you fried your powersupply and maybe evn your processor get a new Computer.