PC semi borked

[MudShark]

My rig seems to be on the way out. I've found it a couple of mornings in a strange state - either dead (fans running, nobody home) or in a dos boot screen with a countdown before restarting which is not running. On reboot nothing happens. Fans start and that's it, disc drive light comes on for a few seconds but other than that , nada, no power to usb mouse, bleeps, nothing on screen. Was like this for a couple of days then it started working again. But this morning it is dead again. It went wrong once last week while I was using it, everything just froze, mouse not moving, keyboard eliciting no responce, on reboot it would not stat (see above).

I think it is almost certainly motherboard or CPU. And as I intend replacing both of them anyway (and ram) it does not really matter which is bust. Any suggestions on what I should be buying. I quite like the look of this:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/moth ... 1004a.html

That's a lot of cores for £175.

[LK3da]

you could unplug all devices like discs and dvd-rom and start to pin down the part causing the trouble, maybe a single RAM or a connected device.
but if u anyway plan to replace it, the offer seams to be reasonable...

[Slartibartfast]

you could unplug all devices like discs and dvd-rom and start to pin down the part causing the trouble, maybe a single RAM or a connected device.
but if u anyway plan to replace it, the offer seams to be reasonable...

Muddy only has 1739 days left on this mortal coil , he's not gonna spend any of em doing this.

[MudShark]

I cracked and bought this:

AMD FX-4 QUAD CORE 4170 BE

ASUS M5A97 PRO MOTHERBOARD

CORSAIR VENGEANCE BLU 2X4GB DDR3

£225 the lot. And free delivery!

[Gavac220]

Give us a review when ya have her up and running mate