(03-29-2016, 07:41 PM)Explorer487 Wrote: I did swap the cables. Though i'd rather hazard a guess at the potential component that's going a bit dodgy than give someone else money to do that for me. See the nearest PC center is 75 miles away. So i've also got to factor in the cost and time to actually make the trip. Not to mention said PC center is absolutely extortionate. There 'IS' a closer one, 30 miles or so however the last time i took it there when i really could not diagnose the problem. They somehow racked up a bill of nearly £150 on parts that i knew for a fact it didn't need to begin with. Not including the labor spent on it. Oh and the fact they had it for six weeks. In the end the only thing i gained out of it was a PC that worked for two weeks before it died AGAIN and i had no choice but to drive it to the professional place 75 mile away who then told me instantly it was a bus controller of some description that was shot. It wasn't cheap either to have that swapped out - but to be fair, it's been fine since then and that was over a year ago.
So eh. Yeah. Not a fan of the service places around here xd - I've been offered an MSI AMD board with an Athlon II X4 CPU on it, while it isn't the most gutsy thing in the world i'll probably just take that for now until i can figure out what the hell is wrong with this thing. The Mobo i've been offered i've been aware of as it's a friend of mine who no longer needed it and he's had no trouble with it at all. (not that it's done any work to be fair). Couple years old now but eh, it's free and i have next to no money to spend on parts for this pain in the neck. Lol.
(03-29-2016, 06:43 PM)Explorer487 Wrote: Okay so since the 25th when the problems disappeared. They've returned with a vengeance and it's more serious this time. Today i turned it on, and the BIOS screen refused to appear along with the CPU fan screaming itself to death. So. I thought it's unlikely to be the HDD, but i took it out of my PC and plugged it into another PC i knew was functioning correctly to rule it out entirely, and surprise surprise, the HDD was actually fine. On Windows 10 with my HDD on it the old lower spec PC i have kicking around booted in under 6 seconds.
By the time i came back, plugged my HDD back in and hit the power button on my PC, it started up as normal, until it got to the Windows Logo, now this thing was spinning away to itself for a while. Like. 35 minutes almost before it finally came up. Whenever i click something, for example, it takes a good 5 seconds for it to respond. In fact at one point it froze altogether, black screened then went off. Hit the power button again, fan went ballistic and then it booted as normal. Right into the same sluggish shenanigans. I'm actually stumped. Since the other PC going about is an AMD machine, so it's not like i can swap Intel CPUs around (supposing they were the same socket) to rule that out also. Anyone know any in depth hardware diagnostic software or has what I've described indicate imminent motherboard failure? Cheers for the input. Starting to get sick of using my laptop and it's crappy Pentium
Imminent motherboard failure?
It's sounds like it's well on it way out of this world, it's just waiting for someone to bury it.
As for the motherboard/cpu combo you have been offered..... take it man, it's free, with the added bonus that you have been told by someone you trust (you do trust this guy right?) that they have had no problems with it.
So it's a couple of years old.... my system is positively ancient compared to that, but it's up and running.
You should be able to transplant most if not all of your other components to the 'new' mobo.
If your BIOS needs setting every time you boot up then it pretty certain that the back up battery has failed. Replace it and see if it stops that behavior. I see you say the HDD works fine in other machines, so. Try using the WD diagnostics program, most manufacturers provide one, just go to their site and find it. Then test the drive on your problem PC and a known good PC. If it is just bad on the problem PC then your mobo is likey toast. If the drive is bad the test software should be able to generate a report for return under warranty if its still valid.
