frell and hezmana

Weekend project: I found a smaller case for my desktop PC and transfered my computer hardware into it. Tight fit, but it seemed to work.

Seemed to.

Got everything plugged in, but when I turned it on, no video, no nothing. Fans all spun up - except one on the motherboard's north bridge. Monitor wouldn't turn on.

It turned on when I plugged my old legacy tower into it; it didn't turn on when I pulled an old video card from my spare-parts bin and plugged that in.

So I think my motherboard may be blown.

Any ideas out there?

Not with a bang but a whimper

Starting to look more and more like my motherboard got fried in the process of doing my little Weekend Project (hah!) Computer show was in town, so picked up replacement mobo fairly cheap, on hopeful assumption that other components are okay.

Before performing mobo transplant, must now back up all data wanting to save on to DVD's, external HD's. Will do so after shopping for food. Plus band-aids. In process of putting primary hard drive into external box for backing-up purposes, managed to open up nice cut on knuckle.

Others have had worse weekends. My condolences.

Of COURSE it was going to end like this.

With the primary hard disk in an external enclosure, with some critical files burned to DVD and CD but the majority of things like bookmarks and patches and drivers and the like still waiting to be transferred over...

Crash. Splat. Corrupt or invalid file.

Everything, in fact, except for the actual BOOM.

We have a winner!

The Superbowl Mastercard commercial.

The MacGyver one.

That ... was a touchdown. *g*