Deinonych
Senior member
The motherboard in my secondary PC died today (config here).
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been having some weird things happen with that PC. Most notably, the HD boot order would swap when the PC came out of suspend or hibernation (this happened every few days or so). In other words, instead of booting from SATA 1 (my OS drive), the system would try to boot from SATA 2. Since SATA2 was my data/apps drive, there was no boot loader on it, and the system would just set there doing nothing. It was an easy to reset it in the BIOS, but I couldn't figure out what was causing it.
This evening, it happened again. I went into the BIOS to change the setting back and rebooted. This time, it gave me a BSOD when I tried to restart Windows. When I tried to do a Windows repair, I got another BSOD. I went back into the BIOS and reset everything to factory defaults. Upon reboot, I got no video along with a long continuous beep. I tested the PSU (with a PSU tester) and it was fine. I swapped the RAM into my primary machine, and the machine wouldn't boot. I put the (good) RAM from my primary machine into the secondary PC and it wouldn't boot (no beeps at all, just fans and HDDs spinning up). So, it looks like the motherboard went out and took the RAM with it.
I'm actually glad this board gave up the ghost, as I've had nothing but problems with it. So, has anyone ever experienced drive priority changing prior to a motherboard going out?
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been having some weird things happen with that PC. Most notably, the HD boot order would swap when the PC came out of suspend or hibernation (this happened every few days or so). In other words, instead of booting from SATA 1 (my OS drive), the system would try to boot from SATA 2. Since SATA2 was my data/apps drive, there was no boot loader on it, and the system would just set there doing nothing. It was an easy to reset it in the BIOS, but I couldn't figure out what was causing it.
This evening, it happened again. I went into the BIOS to change the setting back and rebooted. This time, it gave me a BSOD when I tried to restart Windows. When I tried to do a Windows repair, I got another BSOD. I went back into the BIOS and reset everything to factory defaults. Upon reboot, I got no video along with a long continuous beep. I tested the PSU (with a PSU tester) and it was fine. I swapped the RAM into my primary machine, and the machine wouldn't boot. I put the (good) RAM from my primary machine into the secondary PC and it wouldn't boot (no beeps at all, just fans and HDDs spinning up). So, it looks like the motherboard went out and took the RAM with it.
I'm actually glad this board gave up the ghost, as I've had nothing but problems with it. So, has anyone ever experienced drive priority changing prior to a motherboard going out?
