I'm thinking it is the power supply.


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>>>>Get a boot CD with the HD tools on it - here the magazines have them twice a year. Run the appropriate check for your HD first (sounds ludicrous, but just *testing* made one of my office machines boot again. So the next step was to add a xxCloned partition to have duplicate boot even if it mainly acts as a MSTSC and Outlook client.
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>>>Thanks for the advice. I will follow it on the new PC ;-( This one sure seems to be toast. I press F2 to go into setup but the screen dies within a couple of seconds. Tomorrow I will get a replacement. My current project is working at home so every day that goes by costs me money.
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>>>The good news is everything is backed up on an external hard drive. So I think all this will cost me is time. Oh, yeah,also the cost of a new PC....
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>>It sounds like it has more to do with hardware other than the hard drive. You may be able to salvage it on a different machine.
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>That's the plan. I am going to look for a machine with a spare drive bay. The backup drive is USB external, so no problem there.