I’m hoping there’s some kind souls out there on a Friday night with nothing better to do but help a new guy trying to learn the trade. I’m working on a friends PC for experience and bragging rights and it’s morethan I can handle, so I’m tirning to my favorite site the TechRepublic. The owner thinks the PC might have been struck by lightning and won’t boot up, I first checked the power supply and there’s 13.8 volts going through the harness to all hardware, I checked my old desktop and got 14.4 don’t know if that little difference makes a difference. The monitor won’t turn on and the keyboard and start button on the PC are blinking like nut’s, almost in rythm. I took the hard drive out and put it in my old desktop and it trys to boot, monitor turns on, show the splash screen but then goes to a black screen with the cursor, If I hit a key stroke it will take me to “Invaild Boot Diskette, Insert BOOT diskette in A: I tried booting in safe mode, no good, the only function that will boot is f10 and I go to the Hp pc system recovery, should I hit next to start the process? Should I try my hard drive that works in his PC? I would apreciate any insite on this.
