Computer Crashed......HELP PLEASE!!!!!

Today when I was gone to work we had a lightening storm
and the electric flickered on and off...well i didnt shut
down my comp the nigh tb4...and now when i got home there
is an error on my screen and it says: No Boot Device
Available....it wont do anything ....What has happened and
can i fix the pproblem or is it shot.......Please Help!!

On Wed, 26 May 2004 18:01:23 -0700, "Kelly" wrote:

Today when I was gone to work we had a lightening storm
and the electric flickered on and off...well i didnt shut
down my comp the nigh tb4...and now when i got home there
is an error on my screen and it says: No Boot Device
Available....it wont do anything ....What has happened and
can i fix the pproblem or is it shot.......Please Help!!

1) Do/Did you have it hooked up to a surge supressor?
2) Have you turned it off and rebooted?
3) Can get into BIOS?
4) Can you access a startup floppy?

If you didn't have a surge supressor, it might be fried. It may have a
circuit breaker/fuse, if so check to see if it has been fused.

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Sincerely,

Andrew H. Carter

Time for a trip to a repair professional, or at least to someone skilled at
hardware troubleshooting. This could be a damaged hard drive, fried
motherboard, bad power supply ... not the kind of thing you want to try to
fix yourself.

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"Kelly" wrote in message
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Today when I was gone to work we had a lightening storm
and the electric flickered on and off...well i didnt shut
down my comp the nigh tb4...and now when i got home there
is an error on my screen and it says: No Boot Device
Available....it wont do anything ....What has happened and
can i fix the pproblem or is it shot.......Please Help!!

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT:
DO NOT TRY TO REINSTALL WINDOWS ON THE DISK!

Because, if you do that, you will lose all data stored
in the Hard Disk Drive (HDD)!

If you need to use your computer, consider using any
live linux-on-cd, such as Knoppix, WITHOUT ACESSING TO
THE HDD.
I was lucky a time: I've lost only the power supply.
Obviously that I have now a surge protector.


Richard G. Harper wrote:

Time for a trip to a repair professional, or at least to someone skilled at
hardware troubleshooting. This could be a damaged hard drive, fried
motherboard, bad power supply ... not the kind of thing you want to try to
fix yourself.


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Nuno Silva (aka NJSG)

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