With death comes memory loss....

[orious]

So I was at home, on my computer yesterday, enjoying my day off when suddenly the power to my tower dies. There is a slight smell of electricity and burning dust and when I tried to turn my computer back on it will not come back on. I know the power works cause my monitor still has power and it's plugged into the same extension cord

Comments

[nytemarewulf]

I'm assuming that your HDD is internal. Just have Kevin install it as a secondary HDD in the new computer. The info should still be there.

[foeclan]

Either install it as a spare in your new machine (if possible) or check out Best Buy for a hard disk enclosure. Make sure it matches the drive. If it's 7 years old, you're probably looking for IDE, and a lot of the newer enclosures are SATA (different standard, not compatible with one another).

It could also just be the power supply, which is pretty easy to replace.

[didiseven]

You might only need a new power supply. Could be a cheap fix.

[orious]

I may have built my computer but I don't know how to check to see what's wrong with it. Wouldn't know the first thing about it and don't remember how much a power supply is.

[didiseven]

Power supply is like $20 at microcenter. If the burnt smell is coming from the exhaust of the power supply then it's probably what fried. Installing a new one is pretty much a straight up swap of identical parts.