Summary: Recently upgraded with new AMD 64 X2 Chip and new MSI Neo 4 Platinum Board. Windows keeps locking up on install and randomly restarting itself. The in...
Summary: I was an idiot and accidentally inserted a non-compatible stick of RAM into my computer and tried starting it and I smelled a bit of smoke. Anyways, ...
Summary: It is hard for us to tell if you have a bad motherboard if we have no idea what your motherboard is. Could you also supply some info about the RAM, c...
Summary: alright, i have an asus a7v8x-mx, and i cannot power it up at all. once i turn on the i/o switch to "on" at the back of the power supply, the onboard ...
Summary: Hi joel. Yes, this is a very frequent question, one I have asked on several occassions, myself. And a very frustrating one, too. I have done a lot of...
Summary: So I've had some ongoing mystery problems for a while. I'll try to sum up (I apologize for the length, but please bear with me): P4 2.4, ASUS P4S8X mo...
Summary: ok sorry i got bad english guy i will re write it and try make more sense. ok forget what i said before i make it simpler and easyier to read. 1. can ...
Summary: WOW "If you do have errors then you have a hardware problem. Hardware problems could come from faulty RAM, high system temperature, faulty power su...
Summary: I was installing Linux on my computer, and while untarring a tarball, it gave an error. I looked the error up and it was linked to bad ram. So i wen...
Summary: OK, guys, need some help!! Computer will not come on - no warning, nothing, just stopped from one day to the next! I've put in a new power supply and...
Summary: I'm trying to figure out whether I have a bad motherboard, or a bad power supply. I'm trying to help a friend get an old computer working again. When ...
Summary: Your subject is titled "Motherboard bad?" The answer is yes. Your description of the problem (see 37822 also)indicates that the primary IDE controller...
Summary: It's good to know a few things: "Bad" motherboards are rare, unless they went bad from mis handling, electrical shorts (in the case) or electrostatic ...
Summary: Alrite so I got this clients computer & she cant get the monitor to turn anything other then black.... The same thing happend to me when I tried to ge...
Summary: Ok here we go. Awhile back I was online playing a card game. Everything froze,not sure at the time why as this comp. was a home build only built about...
Summary: It could be your RAM or the CPU. If either are bad you'll get just the symptoms you described--nothing. Unfortuntely in cases like yours there's reall...
Summary: Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I tried to connect my cables to the secondary ide and they just don't work. I've checked the BIOS, but al...
Summary: Personally, I have never seen a bad motherboard battery stop a system from turning on (booting up?). But that aside, it sounds like the motherboard ci...
Summary: I was just needing confirmation to see if this was a motherboard problem. The past couple of days have been filled with a lot of headaces trying to ge...
Summary: I don't know how a techie can diagnose a bad motherboard over the phone, unless it's a common defect with your model? If it won't turn on, it seems to...
Summary: Yesterday I was turning on my Emachines T3104 pc and it kept on freeaing while loading windows. I attempted to reformat the pc thinking a buggy OS and...
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