Tried to turn my home 'puter on last night and nothing happened. Well almost nothing. the power light flickered for a moment the hard disk started to spin momentarily then nothing.

Gonna take it in to be looked at tonight hopefully it can be fixed other wise it's an expense I can do without right now 

I shall return though!

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For everyone's reference ... if you have a very similar experience, try to refrain from attempting to start the system more than twice.  Those power cycles could well corrupt data that might otherwise be easier to recover.

If you have problem like this and you want to save your torrents and everystuff ... you can remove the hard drive and connect it to another system as a slave/data drive and get your data backed up before attempting further boots or more aggressive repair options.

What is described here sounds a lot like a short or other serious power issue ... if you get a bit frustrated and try to keep booting it, your chances of Bad Things Happening to the data are high and increase with each attempted boot.

FYI - FWIW

Zippy ... all the best of luck!  I been through this three times now, and it sucks more and more each time. 

  -- t3h 3Xp4t

Hi I'm here again

The repair was just the power unit and cost peanuts to what  was quoted. I got the machine back two days earlier than expected too . So that was good. I will have to catch up here and at a few other sites today and tomorrow go off I go for a surf now 

The PC sounds a whole lot different than it did though. 

Damn power supplies!

Actually, the new sound could be a GOOD thing -- means the fan is actually working now.

I gotta agree with ph4t3Xp4t advice. If the machine is acting up, by all means try to get the HD out ASAP. You can replace everything but the data. I just spent three days restoring 12,000 photos off of a friend's crashed HD... It wasn't fun at all.