> On 04/06/2012 09:19 AM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > On 04/06/2012 09:12 AM, wes wrote: > >> I would start by looking in the BIOS of your machine - the drive should > >> appear there. if not, it may be disabled or have some other issue. > > It's been so long since I've had to mess with hardware that I forgot > > about looking for the drive in the BIOS. I'll save this in my collection > > of hardware issues e-mails so I can refer to it the next time. > > Alas, it turns out something on her mother board fried the hard drive. > So I still wouldn't have seen the drive in the BIOS. The tech at Pacific > Solutions speculated that it could have been a power surge. She does > have a battery backup/surge protector. So if there was a surge it was > supposed to stop it. > > How does one test or examine a surge protector to see if it failed? >
More likely the power supply failed, and created a surge internally. Not something an external surge protector would handle. I've had a number of systems fail that way in the past. In most cases I was lucky in that it just took out the CPU and left the peripherals. Most of those systems were cheap eMachines. In fact, every eMachine I've ever owned eventually failed that way. john- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
