wesg
Titanium
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2004
This is about 9 years old, built from scratch. Gigabyte UD3 board, Intel 2011-3820 CPU. Intel SSD and a pair of WD 320's for data.
The only previous issue was a graphics card died 4-1/2 years ago. And I upgraded the original 120 SSD with a 240.
It was spontaneously shutting down for a couple weeks. I thought maybe a glitch in Solidworks, because it was always a mouse click in the window that did it. But that was what I was mostly using. I later noticed it did it in Firefox and an open screen. It would occasionally restart itself. Never an issue once it came back up. We had some rolling blackouts after that started.
And now it's dead. It will boot to the splash screen, but I can't get into the Bios. I'm using an old PS-2 keyboard for that. It eventually goes to a blinking cursor. I've tried all the online stuff I could stand to read, pulling the CMOS battery for 24 hours and shorting the CLR-BIOS pins to wipe it. Can't get anywhere.
So, repair or replace? At some point I'll be merging office and shop (now remote), and possibly run a virtual desktop at the machines to avoid license hassles with SW. Surfcam is currently on a dongle, but that too shall pass I think.
So real questions: What are the odds, if it's the motherboard that's bad, that it's damaged the CPU? Conversely, if the CPU is bad, is there a chance it could wipe out a new MB? It would suck to end up buying 2 MB's and a processor. The hardware is at least still available though.
If I go new, what are sort of the current upper midrange standards for CPU's? The 2011 went to a v3, which isn't compatible. There's all sorts of 10 and 12 core CPU's (for gamers I guess), which I don't need. And I'm over 60 so flashy crap turns me off from the start ;-)
The only previous issue was a graphics card died 4-1/2 years ago. And I upgraded the original 120 SSD with a 240.
It was spontaneously shutting down for a couple weeks. I thought maybe a glitch in Solidworks, because it was always a mouse click in the window that did it. But that was what I was mostly using. I later noticed it did it in Firefox and an open screen. It would occasionally restart itself. Never an issue once it came back up. We had some rolling blackouts after that started.
And now it's dead. It will boot to the splash screen, but I can't get into the Bios. I'm using an old PS-2 keyboard for that. It eventually goes to a blinking cursor. I've tried all the online stuff I could stand to read, pulling the CMOS battery for 24 hours and shorting the CLR-BIOS pins to wipe it. Can't get anywhere.
So, repair or replace? At some point I'll be merging office and shop (now remote), and possibly run a virtual desktop at the machines to avoid license hassles with SW. Surfcam is currently on a dongle, but that too shall pass I think.
So real questions: What are the odds, if it's the motherboard that's bad, that it's damaged the CPU? Conversely, if the CPU is bad, is there a chance it could wipe out a new MB? It would suck to end up buying 2 MB's and a processor. The hardware is at least still available though.
If I go new, what are sort of the current upper midrange standards for CPU's? The 2011 went to a v3, which isn't compatible. There's all sorts of 10 and 12 core CPU's (for gamers I guess), which I don't need. And I'm over 60 so flashy crap turns me off from the start ;-)