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PC lights on but nobody home

From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)26 Jul 2015 13:57
To: milko 51 of 60
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the motherboard's current version costs £275 fucking pounds, there is no way that's getting matched. I wonder what level of downgrade I can get without missing something noticeable.

Motherboards that cost that much are just laden with 'features' that literally no one will ever make use of. And, I suspect, just create more potential points of failure.

If you can't get it sorted under warranty (via your friend) then just get a decent normal-person motherboard and it'll be fine.

I got this one when I built a new PC in January and it's serving me well. Even when I accidentally ripped one of the PCI slots off the motherboard because I didn't notice they had clips.

 

EDITED: 26 Jul 2015 13:58 by X3N0PH0N
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From: milko26 Jul 2015 14:13
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 52 of 60
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Agreed. I was looking at that one as a replacement! Or a Gigabyte of approximate equivalence seeing as it's ASUS that just messed up on me.
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From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)26 Jul 2015 14:37
To: milko 53 of 60
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Anything at about that level should be fine. Expensive enough not to have cut-corners but cheap enough not to be loaded down with nonsense.
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From: ANT_THOMAS26 Jul 2015 15:26
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) milko 54 of 60
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I've got a Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 in my server that came as part of a bundle from Scan. Looks like it's a more basic version of all the Z97 based boards.
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From: william (WILLIAMA)10 Aug 2015 18:12
To: milko 55 of 60
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So, is it fixed yet?
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From: milko10 Aug 2015 19:53
To: william (WILLIAMA) 56 of 60
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Oh, I forgot to update the thread. Yeah, it was the motherboard. Swapping that utterly jiggered Windows but it so happened to be the Windows 10 release day so I had an excuse to do a clean install (of 8 so I could upgrade to 10) anyway.
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From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)10 Aug 2015 20:41
To: milko 57 of 60
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Glad I was able to help!
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From: milko11 Aug 2015 10:39
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 58 of 60
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The shouting and screaming was particularly effective.
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From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)12 Aug 2015 05:38
To: milko 59 of 60
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Thought as much, it's always worked for me
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From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)24 Aug 2015 06:27
To: milko 60 of 60
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Sounds like Fozza (well, maybe not quite..)

Are you sure you didn't over-volt the AGP slot?
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