I let the smoke out!! really!!
 

I powered up my desktop today, and all that happened was an acrid cloud of smoke was discharged from the power supply...

Im in the middle of doing some sheetrock and insulation work on mi casa so this release of magic smoke couldnt happen at a worse time..Anyway off to to obtain a new power supply..

The pc boots till it tells me disk boot failure or something.....

anyway Im going to build a pc tomorrow and see if I can salvage anything off the old hard drive....

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You may have lost BIOS data... make sure your hard drives are still detected.

no boot.....it just hangs and givr a message after looking for the a:/ or cd boots.... when I look at the hard drive in DOS I can see all the files.....

How can I repair bios, or how can I direct the pc to the boot files.????

BTW

there is a boot manager on this system as I partioned the disc and have a linux partition as well a a window partition

ty for any advice

Was the computer made by Lucas? :)

Nope built by a co-workers son....5 years ago it was the shizzle... aparrently its time to move on. Had been dead nuts reliable until yesterday.... just after I hit the on switch... smoke really came out of the power supply...

Installed a new power supply and no joy.....

Check to see if the ATX connector on the motherboard is burnt.

Sounds like it wiped out the boot sector for windows, What I would do is put that drive as a secondary (d ) in another PC, copy the stuff you want to the other hard drive (c ) and then reinstall it and install windows again. When running again just copy all the saved data back and you'll have a nice fresh computer.

Oh, in that case just boot with a live Linux cd like Ubuntu and chroot to your native install and re-run your bootloader...

here's an old trick. Double zip lock bag the HD & put it on the freezer overnite. Plug it in as a slave. It might run long engough to drag the data off.