A buddy of mine called me because his system wouldn't boot. He said the screen stayed black, he heard power, but nothing happening. I went over to see if I could help and here's what I found out. He has two CD-ROM drives, for whatever reason, and only one of them was hooked up. It was having problems so he decided to unhook it and hook up the other one. The only problem is that he did it while the computer was still on. He said he saw a pretty big spark when he was trying to attach the power lead to the CD-ROM drive. He then tried to reboot and nothing happened.
Like I said, there's no video, there is power (the fans are all spinning), but nothing happening. Hitting the reset button doesn't seem to do anything.
Clearly, he fried something, but is there any way of knowing what? I can go buy a new MB and find out it still doesn't work and have to go through replacing parts bit by bit until it works.
