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Please tell me I didn't fry my PC. (sh.itjust.works)

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I was trying to fix my Dad's PS3 (he recently passed away) nothing was working, so I connected the HDD from the PS3 into my PC. Upon plugging in the SATA cable, the entire PC shut off. I unplugged the HDD, but now when I power on the PC, the fans just run at max speed and nothing else happens. I don't know how to troubleshoot this problem.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Here's how I would troubleshoot that:

[EDIT] Obvious but very important when you power your PC, if anything starts smelling like smoke, stop immediately. You don't want a house fire on top of your dead PC.

Does you PC POST?
- If no, does it spits error messages (or even mobo beeps)? If so you can figure out what's going on with the mobo manual, but it's probably a bad news for your PC.
- If it POST, go to the BIOS and look what hardware you can see. Do you see your system disk and / or your PS3 disk?
  - If no disk appear at all, maybe you fried the SATA controller. In that case, you can probably boot a disk from USB to salvage your data.
  - If the disks appear, try and boot them. If it doesn't work, either the disk died or you just need to re-install your OS.

Let us know how it is going! Good luck!