-Turn on computer
-You smell something burning
-Switch off computer
Logical.
-Assume PSU is burnt
-Check where the smoke is coming from.
It's the PSU alright. Assumption correct.
Expected Flow
-Replace PSU
-Computer back to normal.
Now this is where it gets interesting:
Taken flow:
-Out of curiosity and pure whim, switch PSU from 230v to 115v. Totally IGNORING what has been learnt about stepdown transformers in physics classes.
-Turn on computer.
-See sparks coming from your molex connectors.
-Turn off computer.
-Replace PSU.
-Turn on computer.
-Horror: Dead hard disks, dead floppy drive, dead CDROM drive, faulty sound card.
So there goes my sad story. I lost two hard disks in the split of a jiffy. One of them was supposed to be my backup drive because I keep very important data inside my computer and never did I ever expect both hard disks to die on me at the same time.
So now my question is: How much is it going to cost to recover those data? I have a 20GB primary(Seagate) and a 4GB secondary(Seagate medalist). If retrieving the 20GB is too expensive, the 4GB alone is enough, at least I don't lose that much.
I guess not much in the HDD are spoilt and the data is intact. Is there a chance that it's just the connectors that are spoilt and not the internal architecture?
-You smell something burning
-Switch off computer
Logical.
-Assume PSU is burnt
-Check where the smoke is coming from.
It's the PSU alright. Assumption correct.
Expected Flow
-Replace PSU
-Computer back to normal.
Now this is where it gets interesting:
Taken flow:
-Out of curiosity and pure whim, switch PSU from 230v to 115v. Totally IGNORING what has been learnt about stepdown transformers in physics classes.
-Turn on computer.
-See sparks coming from your molex connectors.
-Turn off computer.
-Replace PSU.
-Turn on computer.
-Horror: Dead hard disks, dead floppy drive, dead CDROM drive, faulty sound card.
So there goes my sad story. I lost two hard disks in the split of a jiffy. One of them was supposed to be my backup drive because I keep very important data inside my computer and never did I ever expect both hard disks to die on me at the same time.
So now my question is: How much is it going to cost to recover those data? I have a 20GB primary(Seagate) and a 4GB secondary(Seagate medalist). If retrieving the 20GB is too expensive, the 4GB alone is enough, at least I don't lose that much.
I guess not much in the HDD are spoilt and the data is intact. Is there a chance that it's just the connectors that are spoilt and not the internal architecture?
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