I have had electrical problems that has caused frequent power outages lasting for less than 10 seconds. We believe the problem is fixed however, I believe it has caused permanent damage to my PC. It is a Dell Dimension 4600. In the beginning, when we had these outages the CD-RW drive would fail (solid green light). We would shutdown, open the case, switch the power supply end to an open one, reboot, and the drive would be fine. I got a UPS to prevent the damage to my PC, too late, and also my problem wiped that too. Now the PC looses the CD-RW whenever the PC is powered down, even properly through Windows. Any ideas? Could the beginnings of hard drive failure cause this to happen? Why would different ends work and not just unplugging and replugging?
I’m just stumped and dell isn’t helping much. Of course I don’t have warranty anymore so…you know. *shrug*
