Fried my 2178ea presario

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?

"dogstar" 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.