nemo lover
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I live in PSL, Florida. Thursday night we had a power outage, and our computer was on. Our lights flickered on and off about five times. Then was out for about two hours. Needless to say when we wen't to re-boot the comp it would only re-boot to the windows screen, and then would click off, and re-boot again over and over. Safe mode didn't work, last configured mode didn't work, networking mode, none of them. I couldn't even pull up the Bios.
My husband said the computer did this to him before the outtage. He said the computer did this everytime he would turn the computer on lately (before the outtage), and would eventually start. This time it didn't.
I brought it in to a guy Friday, and he said the hard drive can not be detected. So I needed to replaced it. Then he said thier was a problem with the mother board, and he downloaded a detection device from thier website to fix the problem. That got me wondering was this the original problem not the hard drive.
My question this is the third computer we have had, and in all three our hard drive had to be replaced. I am no whiz when it comes to computers. What are we doing wrong? And is thier any way of retrieving data from the old hard drive? like pictures, email address, school papers?
If any one has any ideas I am very open to suggestions.
My husband said the computer did this to him before the outtage. He said the computer did this everytime he would turn the computer on lately (before the outtage), and would eventually start. This time it didn't.
I brought it in to a guy Friday, and he said the hard drive can not be detected. So I needed to replaced it. Then he said thier was a problem with the mother board, and he downloaded a detection device from thier website to fix the problem. That got me wondering was this the original problem not the hard drive.
My question this is the third computer we have had, and in all three our hard drive had to be replaced. I am no whiz when it comes to computers. What are we doing wrong? And is thier any way of retrieving data from the old hard drive? like pictures, email address, school papers?
If any one has any ideas I am very open to suggestions.