Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
Two weeks after the warranty expires.
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t00fri
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Re: Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
ajtribick wrote:Two weeks after the warranty expires.
Too bad! If it is the power supply, this costs (only) a modest amount but it is replaced in NO time. The motherboard is a mess, of course... What was it in your case? How about memory? That's an easy one, too...
Fridger
Re: Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
I always say that when the warranty expires time for a new system... warranty is the lifetime of the part lol
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!
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Re: Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
This is guaranteed.ajtribick wrote:Two weeks after the warranty expires.
Re: Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
Well apparently it was a BIOS problem. The nice repair people fixed it. Sort of. I now get a "CMOS checksum bad" message every time I boot the machine. 
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Re: Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
Hi Ajtribick,
After reading your post,I would recommend reading this:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000237.htm and I hope it is certainly not the last symptom!
If it is the last symptom,and if you still have the manual for your motherboard,I would selected the key you need to press when you get to the P.O.S.T screen.When the bios loads up,there should be a setting (normarly at the end of the setup screen)and select "load setup defaults"(or similar wording) and boot up again to see if it will clear the problem.
If not I would take it back where you got it repaired.
Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000
After reading your post,I would recommend reading this:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000237.htm and I hope it is certainly not the last symptom!
If it is the last symptom,and if you still have the manual for your motherboard,I would selected the key you need to press when you get to the P.O.S.T screen.When the bios loads up,there should be a setting (normarly at the end of the setup screen)and select "load setup defaults"(or similar wording) and boot up again to see if it will clear the problem.
If not I would take it back where you got it repaired.
Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000
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Processor: AMD Athlon II X3 46
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SoundCard: Asus onboard
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Processor: AMD Athlon II X3 46
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LordFerret
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Re: Convenient times for your motherboard/power supply to fail
Here's a dumb move for you -
I wanted to do a little upgrading to my other pc, installing 2 new hard drives. I pulled my old drive out and noticed all the dust (and cat hair
) inside the machine, so - time to clean it. I noticed something sticky-like on the motherboard, all encrusted with dust, so I began to clean that up too. In the process, I ended up breaking off one of those itty-bitty tiny surface-mount resistors... it's about the size of a grain of sand. Long story short, I tried to solder it back on (yea right). No go. Now the machine refuses to boot and I'm searching the web for a replacement motherboard.
I suppose there's a lesson here.
I wanted to do a little upgrading to my other pc, installing 2 new hard drives. I pulled my old drive out and noticed all the dust (and cat hair
) inside the machine, so - time to clean it. I noticed something sticky-like on the motherboard, all encrusted with dust, so I began to clean that up too. In the process, I ended up breaking off one of those itty-bitty tiny surface-mount resistors... it's about the size of a grain of sand. Long story short, I tried to solder it back on (yea right). No go. Now the machine refuses to boot and I'm searching the web for a replacement motherboard. I suppose there's a lesson here.