I think my motherboard is toast :(

[cyberknight]

There was a burning smell form the desktop pc and it swiched off , unable to boot .
Replaced the psu as it smelt funny with a like for like but the pc is dead as a duck still with no lights etc .

I havent used the pc for months as i have a laptop and tablets so should i just bin it or get a second hand base unit and bung the HDD which has win 10 on it and a 2 gig gfx card .

 

[cyberknight]

[QUOTE 4507018, member: 259"]How old is it? I'd just chuck it as it would probably cost you much more to fix it than it would to buy a new one that's 34 times faster.[/QUOTE]
Old
3800 x2 athlon 64
4 gig ram
My laptop i normally use has 8 gig ram and a 1 tb HDD

 

[dan_bo]

Old
3800 x2 athlon 64
4 gig ram
My laptop i normally use has 8 gig ram and a 1 tb HDD

This is the thing isn't it. Once upon a time you would have been advised to have a look at the CPU for burn marks and replace that but feck it it ain't worth it.

 

[Crackle]

You can probably pick up a 2nd hand motherboard and cpu bundle on ebay for very little.

 

[Milkfloat]

What did the desktop do that the laptop and tablets cannot? I would not bother fixing up and old clunker for no reason. After all, it is a computer, not a bike.

 

[EnPassant]

What did the desktop do that the laptop and tablets cannot? I would not bother fixing up and old clunker for no reason. After all, it is a computer, not a bike.

Pretty much this. I have a desktop because I play games on occasion and use it as a media centre. If one didn't do either of those (and media centre is moot because a halfway decent laptop would do that), I'm not sure there's any great need to replace it is there?

That said, if you are talking about replacing old kit because you actually need to, sadly once one part goes, it's pretty much all junk if more than about 18 months have passed (thank moore's law). A new mobo will take newer RAM, a newer cpu of a different socket type, etc etc, the only salvageable parts once you start this are the case and perhaps the power supply.

ETA. oh, for the time being a hard disk is a hard disk so those are good, but even that changes, both my desktop and laptop run from solid state now. Rust spinners are only used for storage and that's only connected as needed.

 

[swee'pea99]

If you do want a new desktop, the question is what do you want it for? My missus does fine with an old IBM Thinkcentre I got off ebay for £20, but then she only uses it for browsing, listening to the radio and a bit of glass hobby stuff, all of which it handles fine. It's only got an 80Gb HD, but after a year it's about 80% free space.

 

[jefmcg]

the HDD which has win 10 on it and a 2 gig gfx card .

If you don't use it, don't get one until you need it.

If there is anything you want off the disk - or you want a back drive, get a caddy and turn it into an external hard drive

 

[jefmcg]

Ps

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ps

Give it a scrape and spread the marmalade

 

[cyberknight]

 

[r04DiE]

...should i just bin it or get a second hand base unit and bung the HDD which has win 10 on it and a 2 gig gfx card.

The OS won't work if you just bung it in another machine as you will most likely have a different chip set. You'd need to reinstall windows if you put the HDD in a new machine.

 

[HF2300]

There was a burning smell form the desktop pc and it swiched off , unable to boot .
Replaced the psu as it smelt funny with a like for like but the pc is dead as a duck still with no lights etc .

I havent used the pc for months as i have a laptop and tablets so should i just bin it or get a second hand base unit and bung the HDD which has win 10 on it and a 2 gig gfx card .

If you haven't used it for months there seems little point in replacing it, however cheaply. For me, the HDD probably isn't worth recovering just for the Win 10 licence unless you've got a specific reason to need that win 10 licence; and in any case, if the spec differs too much from your old machine the licence probably won't be valid anyway. A bigger concern might be if the HDD has data you need on it, but it'd be easier to get a cheap USB caddy and recover the data or use it as an external HDD. If you're seeing the HDD and graphics card as worth something it's probably just sunk cost fallacy.

 

[jefmcg]

If there is anything you want off the disk - or you want a back drive, get a caddy and turn it into an external hard drive

but it'd be easier to get a cheap USB caddy and recover the data or use it as an external HDD

Tap tap tap... Is this thing on?

 

[cyberknight]

Pretty much this. I have a desktop because I play games on occasion and use it as a media centre. If one didn't do either of those (and media centre is moot because a halfway decent laptop would do that), I'm not sure there's any great need to replace it is there?

That said, if you are talking about replacing old kit because you actually need to, sadly once one part goes, it's pretty much all junk if more than about 18 months have passed (thank moore's law). A new mobo will take newer RAM, a newer cpu of a different socket type, etc etc, the only salvageable parts once you start this are the case and perhaps the power supply.

ETA. oh, for the time being a hard disk is a hard disk so those are good, but even that changes, both my desktop and laptop run from solid state now. Rust spinners are only used for storage and that's only connected as needed.

was a gaming pc years ago but obviously for the one mmog i played which i s now defunct although there is a private server but all you can do is walk around and interact with old players .It can run on my laptop but tbh with 2 young kids i rarely get the chance to do even that let alone the all night sessiosn on task forces etc .