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<blockquote data-quote="Alana" data-source="post: 3490764" data-attributes="member: 39734">Dang. Well, believe it or not, you can actually recover data from your hard drive, so long as there's a pc repair shop near you that has a similar motherboard - they can hook it up, change the security settings to let you get your data, and do what ya need to to retrieve it.The processor would be an Athlon 3000+ 64-bit (read: 3 ghz, and Athlon more often than not outperforms its Intel counterparts in benchmark tests), ASUS motherboard, whic are nice and solid, either an integrated or card-based graphics card (likely 128 MB), 512 stick of DDR2 RAM, and as I said, if you can get your data off your hard drive, then you can just reformat it and not have to buy that part... I don't think your hard drive should have any issues.HOWEVER! Have we learned a lesson from this experience? Such as, not putting foreign objects in a pc case, and using compressed air if you really feel the need to do some dusting? XD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alana, post: 3490764, member: 39734"] Dang. Well, believe it or not, you can actually recover data from your hard drive, so long as there's a pc repair shop near you that has a similar motherboard - they can hook it up, change the security settings to let you get your data, and do what ya need to to retrieve it. The processor would be an Athlon 3000+ 64-bit (read: 3 ghz, and Athlon more often than not outperforms its Intel counterparts in benchmark tests), ASUS motherboard, whic are nice and solid, either an integrated or card-based graphics card (likely 128 MB), 512 stick of DDR2 RAM, and as I said, if you can get your data off your hard drive, then you can just reformat it and not have to buy that part... I don't think your hard drive should have any issues. HOWEVER! Have we learned a lesson from this experience? Such as, not putting foreign objects in a pc case, and using compressed air if you really feel the need to do some dusting? XD [/QUOTE]

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