Resolved Has motherboard died?

I tried to boot up my PC earlier today and it just didn't want to know.

I got some writing on the screen as it identified the processor (as you can see on my photo) but it wouldn't do anything else!

I am assuming that the motherboard has just died, but I may be wrong (hopefully).

Any ideas please?

 

Unfortunately no. All I get is what is shown on the photo and then it just sits and does nothing. It doesn't even read the ram, that's why I suspected the mobo before any hdd.

I installed a Samsung ssd about 2 weeks ago and it has worked really well as a boot drive (until now).

I shall swap the drives back to my original bootable hdd and see if it will boot then.

Thanks Steve. Much appreciated.

 

Ok. Will try that.

Thanks

 

Thanks for your help guys, but I will have to postpone this fix. My mother has just had a stroke and she lives 400 miles away.

Arie - shall I mark this one as solved and repost it when I can?

 

Hello Peoples, I'm back for a short time. My mum hasn't really 'woken up' which is normal after a stroke, apparently.

Anyway, back to my PC.

I have tried removing everything except the 1 HDD containing the operating system and the one memory module and.....

I can get into the BIOS. My HDD is listed. So is my single 2048 MB memory module.

I just tried rebooting it after being in the BIOS and it's working. Yay. It took a long long time to get to the "loading operating system" screen but it eventually did.

I shall swap out the memory module and see what happens then.

Thanks for the suggestions Steve and Arie. Very very much appreciated.

 

To eliminate all other hardware you need to remove your hard drive as well, test your video card on another pc or put one in that you know for sure it is working and boot into BIOS, if then no joy it is either your motherboard or cpu, use only 1 stick of tested ok ram.

 

Ok, Hawk22 - thank goodness I have my mother's old PC here. I will check it out on that.

I'm not sure if this is anything to do with it but, when I booted it up the second time Windows 10 came up with "starting automatic repair" after the login screen. Maybe just a red herring here?

 

What I am relaying to you, is the experience I had just recently with an ASUS Motherboard that was faulty. I had spent god knows how many hours trying to fix a constant freezing up, I assumed that it was Windows first, because it would freeze up after leaving the pc unattended for some time 15 -20 minutes to start off with then the times got shorter and shorter and it would freeze whether attended or not, freeze in Safe Mode, and once it started to freeze up when in the BIOS it became clear that it was hardware and not software, I installed a new PSU, but that was not the problem, Bill, here told me to remove all hardware except a working graphics card and 1 stick of ram and yes it would freeze up within seconds in the BIOS.
ASUS informed me to take the mobo to my retailer for further testing and it proofed to be faulty. It had to be the CPU or mobo, CPU was good.
"Starting automatic repair" would make one think it is software though, my 8.1 would never ask for any repair it just froze and needed to be restarted.
Since you have gone that far already, why not go the whole hog and make sure that it is not hardware.
hawk22

 

W10 is more sophisticated than earlier MS editions. Let it do it's auto repair and just follow instructions that may appear on the screen. If it does not repair - then try the other courses open to you.

 

Hawk22 - many thanks for sharing your experience. I will be checking all the hardware just in case.

Retiredlearner - I did let it do its stuff. It took over two hours and then told me that the automatic repair had failed. Then it gave me an option to boot into Windows 10 and that was working all yesterday evening (I even managed to get some work done on it!).

I haven't had a chance to try it today yet, but that will be happening soon.

 

Well now. I've been using my PC so it obviously is booting up ok. I have been having a few problems with programs hanging so I shall definitely be checking with a fine tooth comb all my hardware.

Thanks very much for all your help.