First off, I just want to thank all the experts that answer so many questions here on this site. I have utilized your feedback and answers while researching many of the PC issues and find this site to be by far the best site for correct, easy to understand information.
This is the first time I have actually posted a question. I hope I can keep it succinct....I'll try. I'm not an expert and have never built my own system, but recently I have had some major issues with my desktop PC (which I prefer to a laptop). I have an Dell XPS One 2710 touchscreen. It has notoriously had over-heating issues ever since I bought it over 4 years ago, but I have dealt with by installing a couple of fans on the case.
Recently I was trying to build a virtual machine and made changes to the bios/uefi that I believe completely bricked my motherboard (Asus IPIMB-PV Intel H77 Express). I get the black screen of death, no beeps, no post, no access to bios. I've done all the troubleshooting you would expect, like removing battery, used the jumpers, removed RAM, HDD, ODD, etc (removing these things did produce beeps).
I thought maybe I could just reinstall the OS and I purchased a windows 8 usb....didn't work....no access to bios....no way to get anything to boot from usb or cd or dvd....I tried many different configurations of the boot disc to no avail.
I even went so far to buy a new PSU keeping my fingers crossed that this would rectify the issue...it didn't. It's impossible to find a replacement motherboard for this system......there just aren't any to be had because basically everyone who owned this system bricked their motherboards when they upgraded to windows 10 (which I never did, but bricked my board just the same).
Is there anyway I could just buy a new desktop PC and use this broken dell as a monitor? Would I be able to plug in the hard drive from this dell into any other desktop PC? Would it be compatible? Good systems for around $500? Any guidance would be appreciated, and again....thank all of you who take the time to help in these forums.
This is the first time I have actually posted a question. I hope I can keep it succinct....I'll try. I'm not an expert and have never built my own system, but recently I have had some major issues with my desktop PC (which I prefer to a laptop). I have an Dell XPS One 2710 touchscreen. It has notoriously had over-heating issues ever since I bought it over 4 years ago, but I have dealt with by installing a couple of fans on the case.
Recently I was trying to build a virtual machine and made changes to the bios/uefi that I believe completely bricked my motherboard (Asus IPIMB-PV Intel H77 Express). I get the black screen of death, no beeps, no post, no access to bios. I've done all the troubleshooting you would expect, like removing battery, used the jumpers, removed RAM, HDD, ODD, etc (removing these things did produce beeps).
I thought maybe I could just reinstall the OS and I purchased a windows 8 usb....didn't work....no access to bios....no way to get anything to boot from usb or cd or dvd....I tried many different configurations of the boot disc to no avail.
I even went so far to buy a new PSU keeping my fingers crossed that this would rectify the issue...it didn't. It's impossible to find a replacement motherboard for this system......there just aren't any to be had because basically everyone who owned this system bricked their motherboards when they upgraded to windows 10 (which I never did, but bricked my board just the same).
Is there anyway I could just buy a new desktop PC and use this broken dell as a monitor? Would I be able to plug in the hard drive from this dell into any other desktop PC? Would it be compatible? Good systems for around $500? Any guidance would be appreciated, and again....thank all of you who take the time to help in these forums.
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