Dead Emachine

I had a client whose Emachine died unexpectedly. Four years old, 1.3ghz Celeron, 512mb dram and a dead power supply. I advised them that it was probably not cost effective to put a lot of time/money into resucitating it. I removed the hard drive and installed it in a external enclosure. Luckily it powered up and I was able to get the data they wanted off of it and burn a DVD. They’re going to get a new box and use their existing monitor with it. Lesson – Backup your data!