Computer Related > hard drive failed? Computing Issues
Thread Author: ToMoCo Replies: 8
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 10:11 
 hard drive failed? - ToMoCo
Power just went off for 2 seconds and now my pc wont start up.

The fan kicks in, the dvd drive flashes a couple of times as normal but wont do anything else. No beeps from POST.

Anything I can try? Im posting from phone at the moment
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 10:22 
 hard drive failed? - Zero
Do you have a green light on the motherboard? does the screen flash or the standby light go out? do the hard drives spin up?

I am thinking - power supply. Sudden power fluctuations can do for them,
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 10:25 
 hard drive failed? - ToMoCo
Nothing on the screen, it doesn't attempt to come out of standby.

Ill open it up and have a look at mb
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 10:32 
 hard drive failed? - devonite
Sounds similar to what happened to that netbook in my earlier thread! - try plugging a usb cd drive into a usb port then turning it on!
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 10:36 
 hard drive failed? - VxFan
>> I am thinking - power supply. Sudden power fluctuations can do for them,

Presumably an antisurge plug (or multisocket) helps prevent this?
Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 22 Feb 12 at 10:36
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 10:41 
 hard drive failed? - ToMoCo
Ok, thanks guys, but I'm back on it now.

Unplugged everything to get the case off, stuck the power lead back in and away it fired up (taking a while on scandisk).

Now a pop up box on the desktop claiming 'file cannot be deleted' - 'cannot read file from source disk'

I've no idea what file it relates to, but seems to be ok.
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 10:46 
 hard drive failed? - Zero
Pulling the plug reset the power supply.
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 11:26 
 hard drive failed? - smokie
I've had USB devices which prevent boot up, but that it further down the line than you got. Unplugging them and restarting fixed those problems.
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New Wed 22 Feb 12 16:47 
 hard drive failed? - spamcan61
They might help a bit with a very short spike (fractions of a second) but in general theyr're from the same marketing school as gold plated / oxygen free cables / connectors.
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