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idk what happend

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by arbitrist 1 view

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ok so i was installing xp mce on my laptop when all of the sudden it started making a sizzling sound followed by pops and boom blue screen of death so i restarted the computer and it said it couldnt find the hard drive or optical reader or what ever so im guessing i fried my hard drive? but isnt the optical device the cd drive? why would that affect my cd drive. how do i fix it if i cand use a cd?

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by thumbsup2

You fried the motherboard, or at the very minimum, the controlers the two devices are plugged into. Chances are, a capacitor boiled and exploded.

by oh smeg

The Hard disk not found just means that there is no Bootable partition on it and the Optical Drive not found means that the Optical Drive doesn't have a readable CD/DVD in it that can be booted from.

As for what happened that is a lot harder to say as the noise could have come from the units speakers or it could have been the M'Board destroying itself.

If there is a problem with the Power Supply it could have destroyed all drives connected to the M'Board. Without being there to look see it's very hard to say. Here when I'm saying Power Supply I mean the Power Distribution circuitry on the M'Board not the mains adaptor. Though that to could be the problem.

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by cookieorc

If I were ever to have that happen I would immediatly shut it down. never use it again. I would take it apart and sell the parts on ebay...

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