My computer died during a power surge. It went blank...made a beeping and buzzing sound coming from inside it, and would not come back...

I tried F10 for system recovery and it worked. It worked for three days and died again....

I ran F10 again and it came back, but this time it was very jerky and slow...then one day later it totally died....buzzing sounds back, beeping, black screen etc...

Now I get my desktop and nothing else. It won't move...the buzzing sound is back, F10 won't work and it seems to be burnt.

Someone told me if I can get to the desktop, even though I can't get another thing, not even in DOS mode, can't even get to DOS mode...then it's alive. I don't see it as a happening thing. I feel if I pay big money to fix it, it will die again in due time...and it will be only be guarenteed for 30 days.

Next time I'll fully insure the new one and not allow this to happen again. This computer is only 13 mos old :-( and WAS loaded...had a new graphic card installed too.

Does anyone think it's worth the money to have it fixed? IF IT can be fixed?

What is the make and model of the computer?

Are you interested in opening it up and trying to fix it yourself?

In a worse case scenario you can access your data by slaving the hard drive on another desktop. Also the Graphics card and RAM (most likely) can be reused.

If you want to try and troubleshoot it yourself we can help you thru the process.

In my opinion if it can be repaired easily you can do it yourself. If it cannot be repaired easily it is better to start from scratch. A difficult repair in a shop will easily out price a new unit.

Again if you rebuild it yourself you can most likely reuse much of it.

That being said if you want to try some repairs yourself then let us know.