I think Curtis or someone on here did have an actual bad power cord from power supply to outlet.
Hopefully you are lucky and it is the power supply. Next - I would pull out any no essential cards (video, etc) and see if it will boot (pull the keyboard,mouse too). They could be bad / shorted and preventing it from booting. In the event it is the motherboard (likely) then you need to find a motherboard as identical as possible in new tower to put that hard drive into. If you can match it and the Hard Drive is ok, you can boot and go. (of course do a complete Moodle backup immediately) You may want to pull the Hard Drive and see if you can put it as a slave or 2nd drive in another machine, try to mount it and grab your data. Both the MoodleData folder and the html - www PHP files will be easy to grab if the HD mounts. The tricky part will be the MySQL Moodle Database. It is a file you can grab, but it will be password protected and you may need some expert help to ever extract the database and tables out of it. Good luky! -- Let us know what happens. Terry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Upp Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [tech-geeks] Server Zapped, Any Hope? Fellow Geeks: I have an SME server (that runs our schools Moodle) that looks as if it got hit by lightening. After the storm, I tried to boot the system back up, and there was no power. I got a new powersupply, and just installed it, and I still have no power. I have tried a couple of power cords, as well as a couple of different outlets, but nothing. Is it possible that the cord from the power button, or the motherboard connection for the power button, got zapped as well (never heard of this, but with computers, anything is possible)? If so, is there anything that can be done to fix this, or am I going to have to purchase a new tower and move this hard drive over to it, and hope for the best (IE that this hard drive will work in a new case)? Thanks. -- William Upp Computer and Business Instructor Technology Coordinator Bluffs Schools Bluffs, IL | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
