cracked motherboard

[psychofox]

The motherboard is alive!!!!
The repair shop managed to fix it, turns out the graphics cards was the culprit. They tested it on another motherboard and it broke that one too.
It scambled my hard drive, so they are trying to recover the data from it.

I feel alot happier about this.

 

[Hellcat]

What graphics card was it?

 

[psychofox]

Sapphire Radeon HD 3850

 

[jenks69]

I find it hard to beleive that a GRFX card scrambled a HD

unless it caused serious power spikes but then I'd expect other things to be fried too.

i am confused!

 

[Hellcat]

HD3850 takes a LOT of juice.

 

[johnstoke]

I'd be amazed if the board could be repaired. I work as a process engineer in one of the surviving PCB manufacturers in the UK, specialising in bonding, plating and final finishes. and have 23 years experience in high technology high reliability PCB manufacture. There is virtually no chance it can be repaired, even in the remote case it's only the outer copper layers that are damaged, the proability will be that you will have barrel cracking in the via holes, and there will be thermally unstable open circuits resulting from this. Most motherboards are 6 layer btw.

 

[psychofox]

I will keep you guys updated when i get the PC back.

 

[psychofox]

Got the PC back just before the weekend.
New mobo, new processor, new hard drive, new ram, new graphics cards (I am no longer using AGP) Its practically a new PC.
Turned the useable drive into an external so now i will be backing stuff up. Anyone know some good software for this?
Loads up alot quicker too.
Couple of questions.
I have reconnected the PC to my tv (DVI to HDMI) and the TV will not turn on unless the PC is off.
The card is a Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS (from my brothers Alienware, he has since upgraded and gave it to me). Is this a good card? Can this issue be fixed?
I have a front I/O Creative drive thing, but it doesnt work, soundcard (Audigy 2) works fine, but this doesnt. There is a sound of 'air' coming from the headphones when plugged in. Anyone know where i can get the correct drivers for it? I have contacted Creative, and they are usless.
Also, the PC boots into the "choose your log on" screen (XP) since there is only my profile on it, how can i stop this from happening and have it boot on to the desktop (it used to).

Cheers for any advice guys.

 

[Focus Owner]

i have the 8600 gt 512 mb its ok

is it a live drive if so it needs an ide cable connecing the 2
want a photo of how mine is inside?

 

[psychofox]

i have the 8600 gt 512 mb its ok

is it a live drive if so it needs an ide cable connecing the 2
want a photo of how mine is inside?

It is, but please send the photo.
What drivers do you have?

 

[panda1408]

Have a look in the control panel at what user accounts there are. When .NET framework is installed it creates one which stops it auto logging on but you can't see it on the log on screen. I just deleted that account. I'm not sure what its for exactly but it didnt seem to make any difference.

 

[Focus Owner]

It is, but please send the photo.
What drivers do you have?

just some on a disk i lost another disk i need different drivers for each pc
got 2 cards

will get photos tonight probability naked at-mo so

just will take me a while to find drivers for cardthen ill make a cd with em on n tape em to the card

 

[psychofox]

Nice one, thanks.