I saw that tweet.... aww, crap! It's never easy when we rely on this technology so much!! }

Aw, man! That's awful, Sky. ;_;

You have terrible luck with computers. =<
I am sorry to hear. I hope you are able to recover your hard drive, as well as get your computer working again!

I'm hoping so too. There were so many files I don't think I can find anymore. On the upside, I DID sayto myself I would do some spring cleaning on my HD...

On your next setup, you could look into getting 3 hard drives and putting them together in something called RAID 5 configuration (if your PC supports it), which makes it so if one HD goes out, the other 2 keep going and you lose no files...

...Of course, if that doesn't work, you could always also just buy 2 hard drives and put them together to make a super drive of justice (like 2 3TB hard drives for 6TB of "I don't care" space). Windows naturally can do that one for you even if your motherboard cannot.

I recently had the same problem and got 2 3TB Western Digital hard drives on eBay for around $97 a piece brand new. A rather nice upgrade once my 1TB hard drive I've had for 5 years died.

That's awful! Nevermind the commissions. I hope you're able to get back up and running again soon. :(

I am totally willing to try n' fix it for you, dude.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

As draco18s said, and from reading other comments, it seems to be a power supply unit (PSU) problem. A PSU, if you're curious, is important because it takes the standard 120 volt output from our power grid and turns it into a more computer friendly range of 0-5 volt output.

Your computer, upon start up, does what's called a power on self test (POST). Essentially, the firmware in critical parts such as the CPU, RAM, and PSU run tests to make sure they work before initializing a bootstrap loader. The bootstrap loader is a line of code that starts your operating system, which I assume is Windows.

A continuous beep is telling you one of two things. Depending upon your BIOS (which is an operating system more basic than Windows), a continuous beep code means either your Power Supply has gone bad, or your RAM has gone bad. Given that you said there was a power surge before this happened, and that you could boot up the computer a few times and get a blue screen before suddenly getting this beep error, I am apt to say your PSU has failed.

Thankfully, PSU's are really cheap. You just need to tell me the components in your computer so I can get you a power supply that has the appropriate wattage rating to run all your components.

The PSU? I recently got an 800 watt on NewEgg during the Black Friday sale for $80. It's modular, which is a plus to me.

Add surge protector for the new computer! D=

Yes, the ones with a battery as they regulate the voltage. They can also protect against brown-out (voltage going down for a moment). You could go for a used one. The battery wont probably last as long as it used to, but it will at least protect your gear. I have one here which has been sitting for years. The battery seems defective, though. I think these batteries cost around 40 or 50 to replace. :S

Good luck, Sky Shadow!

This one already had a surge protector, so I'm not to sure exactly what happened...

Should get one with an equipment protection warranty such as this one (though not necessarily this one)
http://www.amazon.com/Protector-Eth...../dp/B000HPX46U

If your device is connected to it and is damaged by a rated surge they'll pay you the cost of replacing the equipment (up to $300,000 on the linked surge protector).

Are there any specific details you can give? i'm semi-good with computers and might be able to help

Well, it blue screened a few times. Then shut off as soon as it got to desktop the next time. Then it made a solid tone and did nothing else the last time.

Hmm well, since it seems likely you won't be able to recover your hard drive, have you thought about wiping it to see if that helps? Or even just try to enter the BIOS menu on start up, if thats not possible its likely a hardware problem that needs replacing.

That Sucks but still take your time with the Commissions once everything is back up and working, no hurry here =)

:( Hope you're back soon!

Real media sketches to help fund imo

I really don'thave the art supplies to do that, or a scanner aanymore, unfortunately.

Ouch! Hope its not as bad as it looks. Something simpler should have blown before the hard drive took damage. Operative word "should."

The problem is determining which part it is, if that's the case, since I don't really have any spare parts to swap with.

Oh totally understandable. The power supply should have taken the surge and blown itself, but if it didn't the the Mobo is next in line (and there's a good chance that it took the CPU with it). If you turn it on and the fans come on, then the PSU is fine. If no fans, then the PSU is kaput.

Oh, and PSUs are cheap. Like $15 cheap. Bit of a hassle to replace, but certainly doable with a screwdriver and a bit of swearing.

Oh no that's terrible! But I agree with draco18 that sounds very much like a power supply problem which is good as your other components may be okay. Best of luck and hope its really that simple!

from all the above posts it does sound like a PSU failure:

I'm seen power supplies as cheap as $50 in store and like $35 if you can find a working computer to get it online, and it should be a relatively easy repair, as all PSU's follow a universal power format, the plugs only go in one kind of hole, and only one way

Ouch! Sorry to hear that, dude.

Hope things can be salvaged and recovered sweetie.

Nuuuuuu! D: