Comments on: Electrical Surge – Computer won’t power up http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/q_and_a/2006/08/electrical-surge-computer-wont-power-up TweaksForGeeks.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sootah http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/q_and_a/2006/08/electrical-surge-computer-wont-power-up/comment-page-1#comment-20732 Sootah Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:02:27 +0000 http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/q_and_a/2006/08/electrical-surge-computer-wont-power-up#comment-20732 You have a couple of options. You'll either want to remove the hard drive from your computer and hook it up to another machine to see if the other machine recognizes it, or you're going to want to plug a different hard drive into your machine and see if your machine recognizes the new drive. More than likely the thunderstorm fried your hard disk as storage devices don't take too kindly to electrical surges or brownouts. Hard drives are especially hard hit as they have both electronic components, and motors. I highly recommend having your machine hooked up to an uninterruptable power supply (also known simply as a UPS, APC is an excellent brand; currently the one I use), preferably an intelligent one that will actively regulate the power being fed to the computer. This tends to <i>greatly</i> increase the lifespan of the computers that I've dealt with. You have a couple of options. You’ll either want to remove the hard drive from your computer and hook it up to another machine to see if the other machine recognizes it, or you’re going to want to plug a different hard drive into your machine and see if your machine recognizes the new drive.

More than likely the thunderstorm fried your hard disk as storage devices don’t take too kindly to electrical surges or brownouts. Hard drives are especially hard hit as they have both electronic components, and motors.

I highly recommend having your machine hooked up to an uninterruptable power supply (also known simply as a UPS, APC is an excellent brand; currently the one I use), preferably an intelligent one that will actively regulate the power being fed to the computer. This tends to greatly increase the lifespan of the computers that I’ve dealt with.

]]> By: R Thomas Holmes http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/q_and_a/2006/08/electrical-surge-computer-wont-power-up/comment-page-1#comment-20717 R Thomas Holmes Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:13:44 +0000 http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/q_and_a/2006/08/electrical-surge-computer-wont-power-up#comment-20717 After a lightning storm I can't boot the eMachine. Using the system disc to see what happend. I did get a message "Can't find hard drive". Where do I go from here? After a lightning storm I can’t boot the eMachine. Using the system disc to see what happend. I did get a message “Can’t find hard drive”. Where do I go from here?

]]> By: R Thomas Holmes http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/q_and_a/2006/08/electrical-surge-computer-wont-power-up/comment-page-1#comment-20715 R Thomas Holmes Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:07:57 +0000 http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/q_and_a/2006/08/electrical-surge-computer-wont-power-up#comment-20715 Following thunderstorms in the area the computer won't boot up. Booting from the system disk there is a message "Can't find a hard drive." What do I do now? Following thunderstorms in the area the computer won’t boot up. Booting from the system disk there is a message “Can’t find a hard drive.” What do I do now?

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