Bamamav
Well-known member
My main home PC died. It has been getting harder to get it to boot up if the power was interrupted, once it finally got power it would boot fine. Sometime Friday before I got home, the power blinked out for a few minutes, now I can't get the power light on the PC to come on and it is dead. I'm thinking the power supply finally bit the dust, it's 7 years old I think, and has been on almost all that time.
Found a few replacements, just need to order one. Question is, how hard are they to swap out? Is it just a matter of unplug and plug in the new, or is their some voo doo you have to do to keep from frying everything? I REALLY want to try and save this one, I have hundreds of pics on it I'd hate to lose. I've thought about getting a portable hard drive and mirroring it for a backup just in case this happened, but never got around to doing it.
I'm somewhat computer literate, but no expert. Anybody able to walk me through this, or am I just being paranoid?
Found a few replacements, just need to order one. Question is, how hard are they to swap out? Is it just a matter of unplug and plug in the new, or is their some voo doo you have to do to keep from frying everything? I REALLY want to try and save this one, I have hundreds of pics on it I'd hate to lose. I've thought about getting a portable hard drive and mirroring it for a backup just in case this happened, but never got around to doing it.
I'm somewhat computer literate, but no expert. Anybody able to walk me through this, or am I just being paranoid?