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In the past months I had a motherboard fried.
It was a built-in motherboard and everything couldn't work exept the graphic card (at it's minimum, it detected a basic graphic card a made it run at low res.) and my modem (I could connect to the internet, weird?). My CPU fan and my Power Supply fan didn't work but my father managed to make my PS fan work again. I was cooling my CPU with my chamber fan. The accident was caused by an upside-down electric plug in my floppy disk drive, so it was burnt too, but my computer was still running fine until the processor was too hot to make Windows start completely, and my HD was intact, and my slave HD and my CD drive also was intact. My HD was mainly the most important part of my computer for it kept years of work.
Was it luck? Because I can make errors while unplugging and plugging things in my computer and I want to be sure that the next time my HD will survive like the first time it happenned.
PS: Do not try to help me my computer has been repaired since then. I just need answers.
I'm afraid I do not understand your question Vidda.
But if you plug in your floppy upside down, that should not harm your motherboard.
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it would have been best if you had told us what the "repair" entailed. Then why it happened could be explained.
I can tell you that your motherboard wasn't fried if you could get video. Fans not working can indicate a problem with the power suppy or voltage regulator on the mainboard.
Never run a computer if the cpu fan isn't working !!! You can corrupt your data being written to the hard drive. GIGO [garbage in garbage out]
You ask a question. What is it you want to learn?
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Okay, I think we have a problem, my question was:
"When an electric accident occurs in my computer, and burn the motherboard and/or the power supply, is my hard drive safe?"
That's what I want you to focus on please.
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And for the "fried" mother board, here's a more precise diagnostical:
-One of my puces were broken, a piece of this puce was gone.
-My power supplie fan didn't work but we repaired it.
-My CPU fan didn't work at all.
-My peripherals couldn't be detected.
-After a certain number of boots my computer couldn't start windows completely.
-My data was completely safe EXEPT a little error in the RECYCLED folder (Lucky!)
-I replaced everything that didn't work correctly in my computer and bought an independent mother board with independent cards and such, a power supply and a processor.That's it, I hope I cleared it up.
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"When an electric accident occurs in my computer, and burn the motherboard and/or the power supply, is my hard drive safe?"
Well nothing is safe when you have an electrical accident, but in general....
- A faulty power supply can destroy everything in a computer
- The hard drive is far more at risk with a broken power supply than a broken motherboard.
- an electrical accident on the motherboard can destroy the components it delivers power to, such as the cpu, vid card, and memory.
- an electrical accident on the motherboard can, but will usually not, harm the devices it exchanges data with but does not provide power to, such as the hard drive, cd drive, and floppy drive.
- an electrical accident to the floppy drive, hard drive, mobo, cd drive, or fan may damage the power supply first, which then may damage anything connected to it. I think this is what happened to you.
If your cpu fan did not work, the motherboard must have been damaged, probably by the power supply which had been damaged when you mis-connected the floppy drive.
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So it actually WAS LUCK that my HD was safe.
Thank god, I'll always read FAQs before doing something unsure. OMG, I had no backup at this time. *shivers*
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