Guys help, I plugged in a hard drive from a broken laptop into my pc to try to recover files and now my pc won't even power up, does anyone know what happened or how bad it might be?
I fucked up
Noah Long
Wyatt Smith
You need to find a working PC to reprogram the firmware and bring the mainframe back online.
Xavier Thomas
Did you unplug it and try again? It’s probably changed the boot order or some shit in the bios.
Jordan Lee
I removed the laptop hard drive and made sure everything was as it should be and nothing, still won't even power up.
Elijah Cooper
>won't even power up
assuming it's not this, otherwise user would just get some "no os found" error
Lucas Sanders
sounds like you knocked out a power cable or something while installing the hard drive into your pc, i'd check all the cables. I don't think this kind of situation could fry your pc
Colton Allen
I checked, I unplugged and replugged the power cables and nothing.
Hudson Barnes
Motherboards and PSUs should have short circuit protection in case a harddrive shorts, there's still a possibility that a shorted harddrive killed their the PSU or the motherboard, motherboard is unlikely current should be limited, PSUs usually just cut the current in case of short circuit and turn back on after powering off and on.
Did you try to unplug the power cable for 10 secs and plug again?
Also check the PSU fuse if your PSU has a fuse.
Cooper Sanchez
Noah Diaz
oh, there's also a possibility the harddrive sent 12V through the SATA rails, if that's the case then the board is probably dead