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ryan3dfan
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well this isn't actually an xp computer, its win 98. but i couldnt find another good computer forum and its a question that really doesn't concern the OS and i figure you people are knowledgeable enough to have some ideas for me. anyways my old computer i had before i got the one im on now, an athlon xp 2000+, i had set up somewhere else to be used as a secondary computer. its a celeron 366, 128 megs of ram etc. pretty basic but it works for basic stuff. anyways i had a bad storm about a month ago and just before i got my computer's shut down the power went down hard. when it came back up this one was fine, it was plugged into a surge protector. unfortunately for my old computer when i tried to turn it on the next day nothing happened. it was totally dead. i checked my power outlets and everything. tried different ones and all that so its not something simple like that. it actually wasnt plugged into a surge protector, i thought it was but it wasnt. so i think it either fried the computer beyond repair or just blew a fuse in the power supply or something. i want to know for sure though because i dont want to trash a computer i can fix myself without paying anything or paying little like replacing the power supply. anyways its been collecting dust for over a month so i want to mess with it so i can know for sure if its worth trying to get it to work or if i should just trash it and salvage a few parts like my cd burner. thanks for any help