Hi, over the past few weeks I've been getting all sorts of PC problems and I'm sure it's the MB but can't seem to prove it. I'll try and be as brief as I can.
The system was freezing up every so often and was becoming more regular. I was also getting freezes on boot up and hangs in the BIOS.
Also getting weird artifacting in the BIOS, see the screen shots.
After a BSOD involving the memory, I memtested and discovered one was faulty. Had it replaced (thanks Corsair) with two new sticks. Memtested all four and all were fine.
Then the freezes started again. Thought it might be the SSD but found the machine even froze from a bootable CD of Linux Mint.
Memtested the individual sticks, there was one (the new one of a pair that I received as replacement) that caused Memtest to crash twice, no errors found, just crashed.
I was finding the North/Southbridge heatsinks, RAM and SSD were all getting pretty hot too. Touchable hot but on the verge of too hot to touch for very long.
I tried a different PSU but still the same freezes.
I had a PSU cable short out the system too, it wouldn't boot while attached to the SSD but to the HDD it was okay.
Now the PC, at boot, can't find either SSD or HDD. It comes up with the message 'No device Found' and 'AHCI BIOS not installed'. It can read from a CD but the storage devices aren't seen on boot in the BIOS.
I'm sure it's the MB as everything seems to be showing faults, I'm worried if I keep trying to fix it it'll end up killing all the other supposed good components.
Thanks, any advice appreciated.
The system was freezing up every so often and was becoming more regular. I was also getting freezes on boot up and hangs in the BIOS.
Also getting weird artifacting in the BIOS, see the screen shots.
After a BSOD involving the memory, I memtested and discovered one was faulty. Had it replaced (thanks Corsair) with two new sticks. Memtested all four and all were fine.
Then the freezes started again. Thought it might be the SSD but found the machine even froze from a bootable CD of Linux Mint.
Memtested the individual sticks, there was one (the new one of a pair that I received as replacement) that caused Memtest to crash twice, no errors found, just crashed.
I was finding the North/Southbridge heatsinks, RAM and SSD were all getting pretty hot too. Touchable hot but on the verge of too hot to touch for very long.
I tried a different PSU but still the same freezes.
I had a PSU cable short out the system too, it wouldn't boot while attached to the SSD but to the HDD it was okay.
Now the PC, at boot, can't find either SSD or HDD. It comes up with the message 'No device Found' and 'AHCI BIOS not installed'. It can read from a CD but the storage devices aren't seen on boot in the BIOS.
I'm sure it's the MB as everything seems to be showing faults, I'm worried if I keep trying to fix it it'll end up killing all the other supposed good components.
Thanks, any advice appreciated.