Motherboard Testing

twistedfaith

twistedfaith

twistedfaith

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I have a laptop where I suspect the motherboard is faulty. Its outside of warranty and I want to replace it myself (I have done something similar before on another laptop). Before I start looking for new parts, I was wondering if there was any software out there that could test to see if a motherboard is faulty or not? I have looked around, but can't seem to find much.

Thanks in advance!
 
What makes you think it's faulty. What is it or isn't it doing?

Answers to above questions will enable us to give you more information. ;)

Rob. :cool:
 
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The main reason I think its faulty is because I've had the problems I'm having before. I sent it back to HP under warranty and the card that came back said they replaced the HDD and the mainboard. My laptop is a HP NX6125, I played WoW on it whilst I was moving house since my main computer was out of action and I think I fried it. I got it fixed and it was working fine til my GF started leaving it on all night etc, now its doing the same again.

The problems I get with it are that it doesn't always detect that a hard drive is present and I get random BSOD's. I have formatted it several times and each time, windows has crashed out and has become so corrupted that not even the windows repair installation detects that windows is installed. I have checked the memory and hard drive for errors, so I have boiled it down to the processor or the mainboard.
 
twistedfaith said:
The main reason I think its faulty is because I've had the problems I'm having before. I sent it back to HP under warranty and the card that came back said they replaced the HDD and the mainboard. My laptop is a HP NX6125, I played WoW on it whilst I was moving house since my main computer was out of action and I think I fried it. I got it fixed and it was working fine til my GF started leaving it on all night etc, now its doing the same again.

The problems I get with it are that it doesn't always detect that a hard drive is present and I get random BSOD's. I have formatted it several times and each time, windows has crashed out and has become so corrupted that not even the windows repair installation detects that windows is installed. I have checked the memory and hard drive for errors, so I have boiled it down to the processor or the mainboard.
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What exactly is the reason given in each BSOD? That would be a good start :)
 
I couldn't tell you what messages come up, for a start I can no longer get back into windows and the other thing is that the messages are random - when I first encountered the problems I wrote down each message hoping it would help - but every single one is different. Sometimes it says the hard drive cannot be accessed, low memory, driver problems...the list goes on. Just to let you know, I have all the latest drivers, all windows updates, full virus scans, spyware scans etc. Nothing comes up, all hardware tests, like hard drive and memory, come up with nothing - I even tested them in a different laptop and there were no problems. This has brought me to the conclusion that the motherboard and/or the processor are at fault - just wanted a way to confirm it.
 
I've already done that, twice! Once in my laptop and once in my brother's laptop. Left the test running for about 2 hours on each stick (512mb RAM spread over 2x 256mb sticks). Its not the memory and its not the hard drive.
 
Sounds like an intermittent power supply problem to me, multiple different error logs with no apparent commonality.

I have a similar problem with an old nx9005 but I only use it for surfing in the front room when I cba to boot up the pc so no bigee.
 
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