Hello,
I had fired up my ancient MSI K7N2 Delta with Windows XP on it. Everything is IDE. When I powered it on, I smelled something burning, then when I opened it up to see what was what I saw a HUGE spark in the power supply and that was that.
I went to Microcenter and picked up a new power supply, but I can't get the board to fire up or post again. Occasionally, I can get the fans on the HSF to start whirling, but only if I hold in the power button. And there is still the burning smell. So I am guessing my mobo is shot also.
I have a lot of things on the hard drives that I haven't backed up that I'd like to extract if at all possible and hoping they are still good. They are IDE drives. What are my options?
I'd like to re-use the hardware for a dedicated recording computer, but finding a "new" ancient mobo that will use the socket A processor and RAM seems like an exercise in futility.
I'd really like to get the information off of the drives. That is my first priority. Second priority would be to reuse the hardware, CPU, drives, RAM, AGP card, etc.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I had fired up my ancient MSI K7N2 Delta with Windows XP on it. Everything is IDE. When I powered it on, I smelled something burning, then when I opened it up to see what was what I saw a HUGE spark in the power supply and that was that.
I went to Microcenter and picked up a new power supply, but I can't get the board to fire up or post again. Occasionally, I can get the fans on the HSF to start whirling, but only if I hold in the power button. And there is still the burning smell. So I am guessing my mobo is shot also.
I have a lot of things on the hard drives that I haven't backed up that I'd like to extract if at all possible and hoping they are still good. They are IDE drives. What are my options?
I'd like to re-use the hardware for a dedicated recording computer, but finding a "new" ancient mobo that will use the socket A processor and RAM seems like an exercise in futility.
I'd really like to get the information off of the drives. That is my first priority. Second priority would be to reuse the hardware, CPU, drives, RAM, AGP card, etc.
Any help is greatly appreciated!