Motherboard possibly died. Now looking for something like it.

[EGGO]

During a design I was working on, my computer just SHUT OFF. It's not turning back on. I replaced the PSU and it's still not doing a thing.

I'm hoping someone can help me find a new motherboard. This is what I had: Text so all the specs should be there. Since it's so old, it's hard to find anything like it, but I don't have the money to buy a desktop that would give me what I demand for graphic/3d design.

And with the harddrive stuck in there, I have no way to take the data out.

 

[o1die]

Amazon.com shows 2 dealers with your board starting at $189.95. One epox nforce3 board, a 9NDA3+ is up for bidding on ebay with 2 days left. And computer geeks has 2 939 boards available that will work with agp but have a different chipset than yours. Both are less than $50, so I would check them out. One is the ecs kv2 extreme. I use the lite version of this board, and it works well for me. I also use the other board, an asrock dual sata II. I have 2 of them. If you order the asrock, you'll have to specify the dual sata II, or they may give you another model. Or you can call them and be sure you can get it. I like it as it works with either pci-e or agp video cards.

 

[EGGO]

Thanks a bunch for your reply. I'll take a look at those.

 

[o1die]

Pc Planet has a gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with nforce3 chipset for $85.80 plus shipping.

 

[EGGO]

It sounds like they might be the better people to use. I can still use the same RAM sticks, I'm sure, and all, so I wonder what makes a mobo so different. The GPU I use is the 6800 Ultra Overclocked by BFG so hmmm.

 

[o1die]

You can use a different chipset, but you may have to backup your files. Sometimes you can load the motherboard drivers in safe mode without formatting. With the gigabyte board, you should be to do that. Windows will probably reload all device drivers and reboot a few times. But I don't know how vista will handle a different board.

 

[EGGO]

I'm going to stick with my XP. Vista doesn't do it for me.

 

[Zoomer]

Someone suggested performing a XP upgrade over you existing XP install. Yes it doesn't make sense, but it apparantly works for some reason.

Oh, please ghost or otherwise make an image of your existing data before trying anything.

Edit: Right now, I would investigate the cost of a new cheap dual core X2 and corrosponding motherboard. The cost would be similar but I'd bet you can tell a difference.

Please ignore my crazy response if you already have a X2 or an Opteron 165 onwards.