Continued from here

  • Took it in last Tuesday, early this afternoon they called to let me know it was fixed
  • New processor was bad, did not work with known good machines
  • RAM was apparently loosely seated which was causing the lack of display. They said they were able to get it to POST (and installed the latest BIOS update)
  • I took it home. It does not POST.
  • I am taking the computer back tomorrow morning. If they can’t get it working in front of me, I am giving up and buying a prebuilt PC online
  • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Have you tried a different PSU? Sometimes they arrive pre-fucked and it’s a pretty easy thing to buy, test, and then return a PSU.

    Have you been able to install an OS? When I built my PC I had major video issues until I realized the problem was that the mobo came with drivers on it that went to auto-install on start up but those drivers were old and fucked my video output. I had to go back to a fresh install, quickly stop the driver install, and then install drivers from the internet.

      • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        8 years is a decent amount of wear and tear on a PSU. Unless you really, really overbuilt (e.g., a high-quality 1200 watt PSU in a system that could never possibly draw more than 500 to 700 watts peak), capacitor aging starts causing things to get a little dicey after only 5 years or so. Meaning, if your PSU is rated for 500 watts and it’s beyond 5 years old, its real handling capacity has potentially diminished to the point where you’re looking at closer to half of its rated wattage, especially if it has been run hard or exposed to a lot of heat.

        So again, try pulling your video card and see if it will boot without it. If it does, it might be time to start looking at power supplies. You’re deep into Ship of Theseus territory now.

        • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah to add on to this a friend of mine recently had his PSU fail after around 6 years. TBF his symptoms were different (pc would randomly shut off) but you never know. A PSU failure is a straightforward way to fuck up PC operation.