I think my mobo is dead, but thought I would ask before I totally panic.
You see I work from home, and this is my central computing center, if you will.
The hardware is nothing, it's all the time I have spent getting everything correct.
I have to get it back, and that means to hell with everything but the hard drives
At least that's what I'm thinking, and the reason I'm writing.
It started with a 'hang' in Windows 2000. Rebooted a couple times, got worse, then Windows wouldn't boot in spite of all my cursing and yelling! Do you believe it? I copied the image off of the backup I had done last night. Things were looking up for about an hour, then the same thing started all over again. Looked in the event viewer and noticed some kind of IDE controller error. Uh, oh. Thought maybe just a one time thing, right? Well now it won't even POST. I figure it's the MB.
What do you think?
Assuming it is, I would like to replace the mobo and CPU with something compatible ASAP. This is my livelihood here! It's an EPOx KT3A+ board, and I suppose I couldn't find one of those in a hurry. Has an Athlon XP 1.4 GHz, but upgrading that is not much of a compatible issue.
My question is, how independent of the OS is the mobo and CPU? Or at least the mobo. I know it's pretty independent of the CPU. Could I buy something close to the EPOX, say something else that used the Via KT133A chipset and be able to boot up without changing anything other than the mobo and CPU?
Any feedback would be much appreciated!!!
Heck, I may even throw in the old CPU to the best answer if I find a combo with an upgraded CPU. Maybe that's not such a big deal on a forum where most people are serious overclockers and have the latest everything...?
Thanks,
SkipE
You see I work from home, and this is my central computing center, if you will.
The hardware is nothing, it's all the time I have spent getting everything correct.
I have to get it back, and that means to hell with everything but the hard drives
At least that's what I'm thinking, and the reason I'm writing.
It started with a 'hang' in Windows 2000. Rebooted a couple times, got worse, then Windows wouldn't boot in spite of all my cursing and yelling! Do you believe it? I copied the image off of the backup I had done last night. Things were looking up for about an hour, then the same thing started all over again. Looked in the event viewer and noticed some kind of IDE controller error. Uh, oh. Thought maybe just a one time thing, right? Well now it won't even POST. I figure it's the MB.
What do you think?
Assuming it is, I would like to replace the mobo and CPU with something compatible ASAP. This is my livelihood here! It's an EPOx KT3A+ board, and I suppose I couldn't find one of those in a hurry. Has an Athlon XP 1.4 GHz, but upgrading that is not much of a compatible issue.
My question is, how independent of the OS is the mobo and CPU? Or at least the mobo. I know it's pretty independent of the CPU. Could I buy something close to the EPOX, say something else that used the Via KT133A chipset and be able to boot up without changing anything other than the mobo and CPU?
Any feedback would be much appreciated!!!
Heck, I may even throw in the old CPU to the best answer if I find a combo with an upgraded CPU. Maybe that's not such a big deal on a forum where most people are serious overclockers and have the latest everything...?
Thanks,
SkipE
Facebook
Twitter