[HELP]System randomly wont post?

Cat_J · 1 Feb 2015 at 18:25

I have a Phenom 955 BE which one day one of the cores just died in. It would get to the BIOS screen then just fall over. Took ages replacing everything assuming CPU is least likely but in the end as a last resort I shut off cores one by one in the BIOS and found it. Have run it on 3 ever since with no issue.

I know you can't get into you BIOS but just goes to show it can happen.

Danzo · 1 Feb 2015 at 18:27

Cat_J said:
I have a Phenom 955 BE which one day one of the cores just died in. It would get to the BIOS screen then just fall over. Took ages replacing everything assuming CPU is least likely but in the end as a last resort I shut off cores one by one in the BIOS and found it. Have run it on 3 ever since with no issue.

I know you can't get into you BIOS but just goes to show it can happen.

Yeah describes pretty much what I've done, replacing everything assuming a CPU would never fail like that, I need to try and find some way into the bios? Maybe it is a core problem, or maybe just outright dead, either way it's a lot of money spent just to find out that the CPU died which only worth like £80 compared to the £250 in components trying to diagnosed the problem

Cat_J · 1 Feb 2015 at 18:33

When did you get them, could you send it all back and just pay a restocking fee? Its pretty uncommon so you started in the right places anyway, its always hard when you don't have spare parts. I used to have loads of everything but have got rid of it all now for space.

Danzo · 1 Feb 2015 at 20:32

Cat_J said:
When did you get them, could you send it all back and just pay a restocking fee? Its pretty uncommon so you started in the right places anyway, its always hard when you don't have spare parts. I used to have loads of everything but have got rid of it all now for space.

Aw it's well over 2 years old now so the majority of parts are past their warranty now including the cpu unfortunately

MrMD · 1 Feb 2015 at 20:43

Danzo said:
Aw it's well over 2 years old now so the majority of parts are past their warranty now including the cpu unfortunately

I think he meant to new motherboard and PSU that you bought recently when you were under the immpresion they were the issue.

If i were you,i would keep the new PSU,see if the retailor where you got the new mobo will allow you to return it,and grab your friend something like an fx6300 and throw it in the Gigabyte board.

In the end you wouldnt be too much out of pocket and your friend would get a moderate CPU bump.

Danzo · 2 Feb 2015 at 22:52

MrMD said:
I think he meant to new motherboard and PSU that you bought recently when you were under the immpresion they were the issue.

If i were you,i would keep the new PSU,see if the retailor where you got the new mobo will allow you to return it,and grab your friend something like an fx6300 and throw it in the Gigabyte board.

In the end you wouldnt be too much out of pocket and your friend would get a moderate CPU bump.

By the sounds of things he's going for the 8350 since the quad core 4300 wasn't upto much and it will probably hold him back for his next graphics card upgrade anyway.
The funny thing is that we intended in replacing the PSU anyway to upgrade the graphics card turns out it was for the better anyway. Hopefully he gets the new cpu and I get to hear the sweet sweet tune of the POST beep coming from the speaker for the first time in a long long expensive time haha! Cheers for the brainstorming and help etc guys really appreciate it