BOXX computer failing to start

CGough88 · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:16

It sure was.

I think I might have “broke” it when I installed windows 10 on it, I used it to play some games a for a month and do some 3D work I do(hence why I got it from work) till it started BSODing and declining, maybe I’d screwed the BIOS settings up with the new OS and it just went downhill from there.

harvey.l12 · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:22

Yeah a 10 year old PC with Win 10 might not have been great, Win10 might not properly support this processors

CGough88 · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:47

Yes, quite the jump from XP. I must have taken it for granted as it was such a powerful machine I didn’t think much on the subject. There’s every chance as these machines are overclocked and so forth that they were finely tuned and after it was wiped at work running it a new everything was reset to settings that weren’t optimal.

harvey.l12 · 9 Jan 2018 at 01:23

Yep, there’s a lot to go wrong with a beafy machine like that

Mrp1980 · 9 Jan 2018 at 12:51

In the top picture nearest the bottom fan header are those two capacitors bulging? Hard to tell from the picture.
Example:

http://www.robotroom.com/Faulty-Capacitors-1.html

harvey.l12 · 9 Jan 2018 at 13:10

Mrp1980 said:
In the top picture nearest the bottom fan header are those two capacitors bulging? Hard to tell from the picture.
Example:

http://www.robotroom.com/Faulty-Capacitors-1.html

Hard to tell on the picture

CGough88 · 9 Jan 2018 at 19:48

I read up on that capacitors page, the caps look fine on the board but I can’t quite tell with the bottoms. There is one cap at the back near the GPU that is bulged but not broke open.

Oddly now after leaving it unplugged for a day the fans will spin up for a few seconds if I hold the power button down.

harvey.l12 · 9 Jan 2018 at 20:07

Maybe leave the system powred off for 2 days or so, then see what it will do

CGough88 · 9 Jan 2018 at 21:25

It’s a thought but it has been off for months before now, it’s like it’s hyper sensitive, a colder day today and it’s alive for a few seconds more.

harvey.l12 · 9 Jan 2018 at 21:29

Ahh okay, yeah probably won’t help then, maybe something isover heating to burning out. Really hard to say with this :rolleyes:

Mrp1980 · 10 Jan 2018 at 12:34

If you see any caps bulging that is not a good sign and suggests this is most likely you issue, if you are handy with a soldering iron it may be fixable

CGough88 · 10 Jan 2018 at 12:37

It depends on how much of a bulge is a bad thing, should they always be totally flat? As this one is rounded but no break in the x score marks on the top.

harvey.l12 · 10 Jan 2018 at 13:06

CGough88 said:
It depends on how much of a bulge is a bad thing, should they always be totally flat? As this one is rounded but no break in the x score marks on the top.

It could always be worth a try to soilder new ones on, if you think the board I dead anyway

Mrp1980 · 10 Jan 2018 at 15:16

They should be totally flat any bulge is a failure in my experience.

CGough88 · 10 Jan 2018 at 20:15

Well there’s another DIY task for me to try then. It’s going to be chaos.