Help troubleshooting please

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steven1110

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I didn't see a troubleshooting category so this looked to be next logical place to post.

I have 2 internals hard drives, 1 for backup/storage and the other for OS and random stuff. So anyway, I installed Vista last night so I did my backups and unplugged that harddrive so nothing "accidentally" happened.

The install went smoothly and I turned off the computer to plug in backup drive. The computer was off the the PSU switch was still on while I hooked up the back HDD and ZAP! sparks flew. I guess the PSU held some charge and shocked the HDD. So i turned everything off at the power strip at this point and plugged in the hdd. Restarted and the screen won't go past the mobo flash screen where I would push delete to enter setup. SO I hit delete..nothing..come to find my keyboard is dead..at least I think it is. No lights are on and I can't get it to reset my unplugged etc.

You guys have any suggestions or tips on what I should do next??
 
Just for giggles, you can try pulling your CMOS battery, waiting 30 seconds, and putting it back in. Sometimes that will shock the system into functioning.

It may be that it's hanging there because it's trying to boot to a device that's unreadable--like your zapped hard drive. If the CMOS reset doesn't work, unplug the backup drive and try again.
 
/sigh..I've tried that already. :( Thx for the suggestion though.

I'd say my next step would be to strip down to bare essentials to get into bios and see what happens there.

Thanks anyway Heather...anybody else?
 
Odd fault to have, PSU must have still been running at the time...try unplugging the drive that caused the sparks, most likely the drive shorted out and is hanging the BIOS because the system is trying to figure out what that device is and can't because it's fried.
 
I have unplugged both hard drives, both optical drives, down to 1 stick of memory and it still sticks at the same point.

On side note, the computer was powered down but the psu switch on back was still on. I found it odd also that it sparked but it is what it is.
 
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