Re: Things I Don't Need Today

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

I'll try more diagnostics later but I'm running out of ideas. It has
to be either the motherboard, CPU, RAM, or PSU, and unfortunately I
don't have any replacements at hand to swap in for testing. I'm
hesitant to buy a replacement until I have some idea what the problem
is.

Isn't that the thing? Now that PCs are kinda mature, no one has spare
parts for anything relevant. Last time I had a PC problem, a few years
ago, my "spare parts" were in the form of classic PCI cards! I.e.,
completely useless for a motherboard with only PCI Express slots. Had
some old RAM sitting around too, probably DDR2, also useless for a DDR3
motherboard.
Sorry, no hints as to what to do. Buying cheap used HW for replacements
and/or testing isn't necessarily a good idea either. I tried to upgrade
my old file server to Xeon from a low end Celeron but that Xeon was
badd. Not so bad the system wouldn't boot but otherwise... At least I
didn't lose any data.
OTOH, my cheap ass Haswell refresh motherboard and CPU served me well
for two or three years. And those were shipped without even an
antistatic bag... Well, I've learned since then that those bags have a
shortish shelf life so it's actually fairly unreasonable to ask a random
seller to procure a fresh motherboard sized antistatic bag.