Bad Day Main PC Mother Board Failed [message #78731] |
Sat, 21 December 2013 14:57 |
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gofar99
Messages: 1947 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
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Horrors of horrors, my main PC MB died. Laptops are fine but IMHO don't cut it for serious PC design use. The worst part is getting the new MB to marry up with the existing software. A true challenge for sure. The new CPU is different (comes with the new board), the board is different, LAN card is different, video is different. I fully expect a day of hair pulling. Then there is the likelihood that mother micro soft will jump in make me ask for a may I change things. Bah Humbug.
Good Listening
Bruce
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Re: Bad Day Main PC Mother Board Failed [message #78864 is a reply to message #78742] |
Thu, 02 January 2014 23:24 |
Thermionic
Messages: 208 Registered: May 2009
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Been there, done that, and it's a real bummer. The PC I'm using to post this is one whose motherboard I replaced in 2003 or 2004 when the original died. I needed to replace it ASAP because it was my business computer back then, so I had no choice except to get a replacement board locally or else buy a new machine altogether.
As luck would have it, the original's CPU socket was obsolete, so I had to buy a new CPU along with the new board. All I could get locally was a low-end Gigabyte with DDR RAM, and the only CPU they had was a single-core Sempron. AAMOF, I think DDR2 had then only just hit the market. So, this thing's not only a dinosaur, but a bottom-end dinosaur at that. But hey, it works great for what little I use it for.
I'm now on my 2nd power supply, and I think 4th HDD and 4th optical drive. The next time something dies, I'm gonna have to build a brand new one because compatible parts are pretty near unobtanium these days. I just built some really spicy new computers with SSDs (15 second bootup!) for my wife's workplace, which has given me the itch to upgrade anyway!
Thermionic
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