Well I was messing around with DAOC last night with the free trial thingie to see what has changed, when out of the blue my system shuts down and I smell a faint burning smell. I try to reboot it but it just clicks on then dies again. Hoping it is just overheated (despite the 4 fans) I go wash my dog and come back. It is still dead so I get the power unit off my kid's system and slap it into my dead system. It now fires up but just beeps 3 times.
I take out my Radeon 9600XT (2 months old tops) and put in the old geforce 3. Ahhh finally it boots... but wait! It doesn't recognize the WD hard drives! I take the maxtor HD out of my kid's system and it boots up just fine with that.
So despite having a surge protector it appears that both of my HD and my Vid card and power supply got cooked last night. The vid card I can get warranty service on, the most annoying thing is that we JUST did our taxes and now all that data is lost. Is there any way to recover that data or repair those drives for a reasonable cost? AFAIK the media in the drive should be ok they just can't communicate with my system. Can you do a media transplant and move the guts of one HD into a new HD case?
/sigh