or can it be a software issue
To begin I have a 6yrs old alienware aurora(please don't hate...) it has worked well for the most part except for black screen that started round about two years into its life, black screens that went away for months at a time when I reseated the video card and memory (which would often also report as dead)but always came back.
I have over the 6 years upgraded the video card from a 295gtx to a 580gtx.
The 580gtx was RMA'ed for a gtx960 after 2 3/4 years with "artifacting" issues
about a month before the 580 effectively died the hard drive had died and was replaced also.....
so hard drive gone, video card gone both replaced
The same day I installed the 960 windows starts to shutdown the PC abruptly.......... search the event viewer, saw kernel power errors researched that found that the power supply is often the cause of those, bought a power supply even though the existing PSU was meter tested and all the voltages checked out.
Get the new power supply yesterday.....installed, benchmarked and stress tested the hell out of it with rendering projects and benchmark tools and all worked well, open up a browser right after and boom restart this time however display doesn't come up and no system beeps nothing.... fans all running though........research that and all fingers point to the motherboard being dead.....except that after hours of trying to get the computer up and out of morbid curiosity ....and a little self hate I put the thing on while heading to bed and it boots
has anybody ever experienced so many failures so "close" together, along with components reporting dead but then coming back to life?
should I simply gut the PC and replace the board and processor altogether...or is there something I can do to buy some time with this board it's an lga1366 x58...so there really is no replacing that CHEAPLY
thanks
To begin I have a 6yrs old alienware aurora(please don't hate...) it has worked well for the most part except for black screen that started round about two years into its life, black screens that went away for months at a time when I reseated the video card and memory (which would often also report as dead)but always came back.
I have over the 6 years upgraded the video card from a 295gtx to a 580gtx.
The 580gtx was RMA'ed for a gtx960 after 2 3/4 years with "artifacting" issues
about a month before the 580 effectively died the hard drive had died and was replaced also.....
so hard drive gone, video card gone both replaced
The same day I installed the 960 windows starts to shutdown the PC abruptly.......... search the event viewer, saw kernel power errors researched that found that the power supply is often the cause of those, bought a power supply even though the existing PSU was meter tested and all the voltages checked out.
Get the new power supply yesterday.....installed, benchmarked and stress tested the hell out of it with rendering projects and benchmark tools and all worked well, open up a browser right after and boom restart this time however display doesn't come up and no system beeps nothing.... fans all running though........research that and all fingers point to the motherboard being dead.....except that after hours of trying to get the computer up and out of morbid curiosity ....and a little self hate I put the thing on while heading to bed and it boots
has anybody ever experienced so many failures so "close" together, along with components reporting dead but then coming back to life?
should I simply gut the PC and replace the board and processor altogether...or is there something I can do to buy some time with this board it's an lga1366 x58...so there really is no replacing that CHEAPLY
thanks
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