Fried my 2178ea presario

[dogstar]

Last night I hurriedly went to connect the psu cable to my 2178ea and put it in another port by mistake. There was a slight crackle and the computer is now dead with none of the power indicator lights on. I want to salvage the contents of the hard drive and assume it wont be affected. Do I need to replace the motherboard or is it possible that something smaller is blown and can be replaced?

[davy]

First of all check that the power unit is ok... this ought to be the first step,

You can either try a new power unit or try the suspect on another computer, there is that possibility you have just blown the power unit.

davy

"dogstar" <dogstar.2tkeic@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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> Last night I hurriedly went to connect the psu cable to my 2178ea and
> put it in another port by mistake. There was a slight crackle and the
> computer is now dead with none of the power indicator lights on. I want
> to salvage the contents of the hard drive and assume it wont be
> affected. Do I need to replace the motherboard or is it possible that
> something smaller is blown and can be replaced?
>
>

What port DID you put it into ? Depends - might be an internal fuse.
If you need data off the drive asap, to remove the hard drive - go to page
39.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00246219.pdf

At CompUSA etc, get an adapter. Search Google for "notebook hdd
adapter 3.5 " and you'll see lots of them. You can then hook up the disk
to a desktop PC to get your documents until you get laptop fixed.