time of death: 2 days ago (the last time it worked)

i hit the power button, blue light comes on that lets me know its on, i don't hear no HD turning. been acting screwy ever since i had static electricity and touched my speaker to turn up the volume and i blew out my speaker. i always download a bunch of stuff off torrent but nothing especially malicious, at least nothing that could get past avast.

thank God i have another PC. the one that died is/was my mega PC. i assume i could probably take it in to get looked at but i don't feel like paying $100 to do it and have some geek take a peek at what i have on my HD.

Time to get on the purchase a new PC bus.

after this i'm saving for a laptop.


i'm considering seeing how much itd be to resurrect this thing. i got like 21 movies on it, lots of songs and years worth of pics (of which i fortunately have 95% on my other PC). no matter what as soon as i get another laptop i'm gonna pay to have the media on my broken PC ported over to an external HD.

just a big inconvenience. i really don't like how one day something can work and then the next it doesn't work. the last thing i remember doing was i downloaded a mp3 (Wolf Like Me). then nothing. now i know how Tony Soprano felt. "in the end you never hear anything...it all just goes to black".

I feel your pain. Some screwy thing happened to Windows a couple of weeks ago that it got stuck before the log in screen in normal and safe modes. Tried to fix it without a reinstall, but to no avail. Thankfully I was smart enough to have a partition just for Windows so I could reinstall it without losing my data. Just a big inconvenience as you said.

Late in 2007 my PC died suddenly just like yours. Some kind of hardware issue; most likely the motherboard died so a similar situation. As long as your hard drive is still good, you can recover your data. All you need is to attach your drive(s) from the dead pc to a working one and see if you can read the data. Then just copy it to a hard drive on the working computer.

If you don't have the tech skills to do so you probably have a friend that can. It's not a big deal. If your drive is unreadable, there is still a chance to recover the data but that is a little more difficult. Again, a savvy tech person could do it.