[etipjar]

Hello,

Not sure if this is the right place to submit my query, but thought I would start out generally and focus my topic down. So here goes.

A little over a week ago I was surfing the net on 1 of my 2 desktops and it crashed. The power went out to it and the whole screen went black. There was no smoke or smells, and I thought it may have been a power surge so I checked the power strip and all the other devices were running fine and the light was on on the power strip. I tried turning the computer back on and nothing happened. I then switched out the power cord from the back with another power cord and was able to get the lights of the computer to come on, the fans run and the disc tray ejects, but there is no display what so ever on either monitor. I took my second computer and hooked it to the monitors and it works fine. So I know the monitors aren't bad.

I have since switched the graphics cards between the 2 computers, switched the memory and still the same thing happens. No display on my 1st computer, with the 2nd computer working fine with the original computer's memory, and graphics card.

Do you think I somehow fried my motherboard or cpu? I am looking for any advice available. I have a lot of files and projects on the old computer and would love to recover whatever I can, but at this point I can't even get to a display to see what is still there. Thanks in advance.

If this is the wrong place for these types of questions I apologize.

[Krlll]

Maybe you can switch the computers power supply aswell and see if that is the fault.
Even if the cpu/motherboard is fried all is not lost as hopefully your data was not damaged and you can plug the hard drives into the other PC and retrieve the data.
Changing the power cord resulting in at least some activity in the PC seems to suggest that the power cord itself originally caused the problem.