If "power supply problem" means it "fried" with a burnt smell, it could 
have destroyed several other components with it. I'm repairing a 
computer now in which the power supply blew and took 2 hard drives, a 
CDRW-DVD combo, motherboard and perhaps the CPU (will know after I 
replace the motherboard), and a case fan with it. If I had known the 
extent of damages before I started, I would have replaced the entire 
system. I've had another computer that the power supply blew and also 
took out the keyboard, mouse and motherboard but at least it left the 
hard drive intact though it had to have the OS reinstalled.

Just what you wanted to hear - right??

Tom Mayer

chipo chika wrote:
> A friend brought over a small pc NEC valuestar that it could not not
> find the operating system win ME. I booted it and it reported missing
> operating system. I then re-booted with win98 boot disk and in the
> process the machine could not find any drive including the cd-rom. The
> cd-rom and the hard drive are connectedd to the mainbord IDE. Im told
> the pc hard earlier a power supply problem and it was fixed. Could it be
> the IDE controller is gone? The pc has no pci expansion slots.
>
>   

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