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Hi guys, thought i'd share this, good luck getting through it.
So.. I ungraded my PC last year and as usual the missus had my hand me downs (she'd rather spend her money on cadle wax and sewing machines etc knowing she'll still get an upgrade eventualy). After a few weeks the M.2 drive starts scanning and repairing on boots, me, starts whinging that i've had the system for 5+ years (M.2 was only 6 months old at this point, upgraded from HDD - yes, the shame) and never had an issue.. missus blames kids - who to be fair use her computer frequently.
Christmas comes and we buy 2 of the kids PC's, 10400F + B560 = bargain (my lad previously had my old 960T BE with a HD6950). Well, times being as they are, GPU's are a no go off the shelf so old GPU's are the only option, the lads 6950 and the now spare 7950 that was the missus old card.
Subesquently comes to building the computers, put the 7950 in the first build and it wont boot, ******, so I stole my old GTX 970 from my missus machine and it booted.. thought ffs the 7950 has died finally - to be fair it was overheating before it was shelved. Panic sets in and we end up paying £75 for a GT 730 2gb DDR5 (never felt so ripped off in my life - still stings).
Night before christmas eve, due to a crazy few weeks at work (start of a large corprate takeover and systems intergration) I eventually get around to building the second system and set it up using the 730, good stufff.
Christmas day !! Transfer the lads 6950 into his new system and it doesn't boot.. ffs.. cant be doing with this now.. so I throw the missus GTX 970 in there and it boots.. happy kids.. happy days.
Arriving at boxing day and the missus is getting a bit niffed at not having a PC, the obious temporary solution is to throw the 7950 into the missus machine (by this time I've realised that it's a EUFI BIOS issue that is stopping the old cards booting on the 560 mobo's but don't want to spoil the kids gaming christmas - they're actually getting along, no fighting !!).
Firstly the 7950 hard reboots after a run of heaven and then artifacts on the restart..ffs, so I pop the 6950 in there and run heaven.. it its 87C @ 100% dual fan speed.. that'll do for the time being !
Yesterday the PC gets stuck in the 3 sec boot loop.. **** my life.. today I spent an hour trouble shooting, resetting the BIOS anyway I know how to try to get the PC to boot from any GPU or the 6600K IGPU.. nothing.
Eventually (after an hour messing with BIOS, GPU's and a lot of power cycling) I strip it down to the bone and solve the issue by removing CPU power connector - even though it was secured fully - giving it and the socket a blow and reseating.. PC boots with no M.2 scan (see paragraph 1 haha).
Moral.. being lazy with maintenance and trouble shooting, regardless of experience can bite you in the arse eventually !
Thank you if you managed to read this seemingly pointless essay.
So.. I ungraded my PC last year and as usual the missus had my hand me downs (she'd rather spend her money on cadle wax and sewing machines etc knowing she'll still get an upgrade eventualy). After a few weeks the M.2 drive starts scanning and repairing on boots, me, starts whinging that i've had the system for 5+ years (M.2 was only 6 months old at this point, upgraded from HDD - yes, the shame) and never had an issue.. missus blames kids - who to be fair use her computer frequently.
Christmas comes and we buy 2 of the kids PC's, 10400F + B560 = bargain (my lad previously had my old 960T BE with a HD6950). Well, times being as they are, GPU's are a no go off the shelf so old GPU's are the only option, the lads 6950 and the now spare 7950 that was the missus old card.
Subesquently comes to building the computers, put the 7950 in the first build and it wont boot, ******, so I stole my old GTX 970 from my missus machine and it booted.. thought ffs the 7950 has died finally - to be fair it was overheating before it was shelved. Panic sets in and we end up paying £75 for a GT 730 2gb DDR5 (never felt so ripped off in my life - still stings).
Night before christmas eve, due to a crazy few weeks at work (start of a large corprate takeover and systems intergration) I eventually get around to building the second system and set it up using the 730, good stufff.
Christmas day !! Transfer the lads 6950 into his new system and it doesn't boot.. ffs.. cant be doing with this now.. so I throw the missus GTX 970 in there and it boots.. happy kids.. happy days.
Arriving at boxing day and the missus is getting a bit niffed at not having a PC, the obious temporary solution is to throw the 7950 into the missus machine (by this time I've realised that it's a EUFI BIOS issue that is stopping the old cards booting on the 560 mobo's but don't want to spoil the kids gaming christmas - they're actually getting along, no fighting !!).
Firstly the 7950 hard reboots after a run of heaven and then artifacts on the restart..ffs, so I pop the 6950 in there and run heaven.. it its 87C @ 100% dual fan speed.. that'll do for the time being !
Yesterday the PC gets stuck in the 3 sec boot loop.. **** my life.. today I spent an hour trouble shooting, resetting the BIOS anyway I know how to try to get the PC to boot from any GPU or the 6600K IGPU.. nothing.
Eventually (after an hour messing with BIOS, GPU's and a lot of power cycling) I strip it down to the bone and solve the issue by removing CPU power connector - even though it was secured fully - giving it and the socket a blow and reseating.. PC boots with no M.2 scan (see paragraph 1 haha).
Moral.. being lazy with maintenance and trouble shooting, regardless of experience can bite you in the arse eventually !
Thank you if you managed to read this seemingly pointless essay.
