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This is the situation; I was trying to be a smart and installing a new hard disk by myself. Sow probably I whose buckle some cables wrong. And than when I started my PC, it whose switch ON, in the second, and than switch of. I sense a light smell of the burning. From then the pc haw no reaction at all. Is my motherboard dead and also a hard disk? And is there any cure or I must to buy a new PC?

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Depends. Disconnect the harddrive, and see if it starts upp. Definetely sounds like something fried, if you got the burning smell. The computer turns right off? Lets eliminate a few things. first, like i said, unplug hte harddrive from the power supply and see if it turns on.

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