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Originally Posted by joeysCC
First thing I would check (and this wasn't mentioned) is the fan. Does it still work and is it blowing? Also, is your computer inside clean of excess dust and dust bunnies?
If the system does not turn on after awhile, but the fan works, I would then look into the powersupply issue. After that, if that was ok, then I would think your motherboard is fried. As for the HD....if you have another hard drive somewhere, perhaps put that inplace of the existing one, and start the system up in dos...hope you have a startup diskette? Because if this works, then your drive was the culprit..which means reformat and and let me guess, you do not have any backups?
gotta love computers hey...
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Thanks for the reply.
Well, there is some dust inside the case, but I don't think it's a lot, really. The cpu fan still works. How can I test the power supply? There is still a bit of power coming out of it, if I hold the power button on, the cpu fan starts going, at least. But nothing stays on. I don't think it even gets up to starting to boot now. The power won't stay on if I'm not holding the on button.
As for the HD, I have two in there, both are bootable, so if one went down, supposedly the other should get booted, or in any case it seems irrelevant now that the bios doesn't even run.
I'm worried that it could be the motherboard, or even the CPU. If I put my head right in there, it does have a bit of unnatural 'stink' around the cpu and/or a row of transistors nearby on the motherboard.
So it seems to me that my data should still be safe, but could whatever happened have corrupted the drives anyway?