OK..let me preface this by stating I was jet lagged and operating on 2 hrs of sleep.
I have had problems with my HD (60 gig Maxtor) for a while but after returning from a trip late this morning I booted up my machine and got a 'non-bootable disk error', I checked the floppy...it was empty and the CD was empty as well. Tried to reboot & got same error. So in my sleep depraved mind I figured...np, Ill just unplug the floppy and try again. Well, like a complete idiot I reached down while the machine was powered up and running and yanked the pwr supply to the HD by mistake. As I did it I realized 'Oh crap' and hesitated just long enough so that the pwr supply connector shorted out at the connection the HD. ZAP!!! big spark and system crashed.
Now I know my HD is porked and I really dont care about that...what Im very worried about is collateral damage...especially to my video card and MB. Im stuck at work right now but will be installing a new HD this afternoon and reboot to see what happens. Anyone have any idea about the possibility of damage to other components?
Thanks in advance from a tired stupid person
I have had problems with my HD (60 gig Maxtor) for a while but after returning from a trip late this morning I booted up my machine and got a 'non-bootable disk error', I checked the floppy...it was empty and the CD was empty as well. Tried to reboot & got same error. So in my sleep depraved mind I figured...np, Ill just unplug the floppy and try again. Well, like a complete idiot I reached down while the machine was powered up and running and yanked the pwr supply to the HD by mistake. As I did it I realized 'Oh crap' and hesitated just long enough so that the pwr supply connector shorted out at the connection the HD. ZAP!!! big spark and system crashed.
Now I know my HD is porked and I really dont care about that...what Im very worried about is collateral damage...especially to my video card and MB. Im stuck at work right now but will be installing a new HD this afternoon and reboot to see what happens. Anyone have any idea about the possibility of damage to other components?
Thanks in advance from a tired stupid person