Have you ever had a motherboard die?

[phasseshifter]

happy new year to all..and the general opinion seems to be the supply...

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

If you haven't swapped out the power supply then you will be RMAing every part, go to a Micro Center buy a cheap PSU and try it. If the same thing happens take the new one back tell them it doesn't work...........
If it works you found your source, I cant do it for you.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Back in the day my Abit KR7A-RAID died. I wasn't sure what part was bad so I took it to a local computer shop and they tested and said it was the board. And they were right, after I got my board replaced by Abit the system was running great again.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I had multiple MSI KT266 (socket A) boards die (horrible model put me off MSI for years), I've had an ECS K7S5A die (blown VRMS) also socket A, and going even further back I've had a Tyan S1584 die (it was a socket 370 / slot 1 board) (deer POS PSU killed it when it went. it had no OCP).
I have a still working asus P5K deluxe Wifi/ap but only 5 of 6 sata ports work at one time and it varies randomly each time you add a device. (prollly a flakey south bridge)

 

[Puffnstuff]

I've had several boards die on me and each went without warning. I've lost boards from abit, shuttle, msi, asus, evga, aopen, gigabyte and dfi just to name a few so the brand doesn't matter when that time comes. What does matter is the construction quality which minimizes that happening in the first place and asus has the top spot in my house. Over the years their boards have lasted the longest for me and is what I run now. I jumped to evga for their nforce 780 sli board and stayed through the x58's but they aren't the same company now and their z87 ftw and z97 ftw boards have been horrible for me. Their failing has sent me back to asus and I have no plans of leaving them again.

 

[WT]

I had a DFI LAN Party NF4 that literally blew a component off while in use. I heard a pop, went and looked at it but it was running fine so I never thought twice about it. Sold it on Ebay 6 months later and had the buyer freak out on me.

He found where the board had popped and subsequently left a burned trace, and demanded his money back. I looked at the pics I had posted for the sale and saw enough to justify the return. I assured him the board was functional (it ran fine 6 months after the initial pop !!) but he wasn't chancing it, and acted like I was trying to scam him from the start. I even asked to have it shipped back to me at my cost, but he wasn't even going to do that for me. I don't sell on Ebay any more after that.

I had another 939 board die on me, a Foxconn P.O.S. bought from Geeks.com, but seeing as how I probably had my hands on 100 boards over the years, 2 out of 100 is damn good odds.

 

[Ketchup]

I had a DFI LAN Party NF4 that literally blew a component off while in use. I heard a pop, went and looked at it but it was running fine so I never thought twice about it. Sold it on Ebay 6 months later and had the buyer freak out on me.

He found where the board had popped and subsequently left a burned trace, and demanded his money back. I looked at the pics I had posted for the sale and saw enough to justify the return. I assured him the board was functional (it ran fine 6 months after the initial pop !!) but he wasn't chancing it, and acted like I was trying to scam him from the start. I even asked to have it shipped back to me at my cost, but he wasn't even going to do that for me. I don't sell on Ebay any more after that....

Those Nvidia chipsets were so hot, I would be surprised if stories like this weren't quite common.
People freak out over the smallest things. We aren't talking about big money here. Glad that incident is behind you.

 

[bshole]

FUUUUUUUUU!!!! It's randomly rebooting again! ლ(ಠ益&#3232ლ Maybe it is the PSU?

Sounds like it could be a RAM problem. I had the exact same symptons and replacing the RAM fixed it.

 

[xLegenday]

Had 2 MSI die on me in less than half year! Dont know if was MSI problem or just this model in particular.. but not going back. Now had couple of builts done using Asrock, zero issues..

 

[Mojoed]

I've had two motherboards go bad on me. Both failures occurred over 10 years ago.

First was an old 420ZX board, (486 era) IIRC black scorch marks along with a horrible smell did this one in.

The second was an Abit 440BX board with terrible, terrible caps. A few of them bulged and leaked and poof!

It's been about 13 years since I've had a MB fail and this spans probably 50+ builds.

 

[ioni]

After replacing both the mobo and PSU everything has been stable for a few days now. Seems like there was definitely an issue with the PSU since that was the last piece that was replaced. I wish I could test the old mobo without a CPU to see if it really was just the PSU or a combination of both.

 

[Upgr8er]

There are only two components (Okay, 3 counting my SSD) that I've ever had break on me and those were motherboards and power supplies. It's gotten a lot better in the last few years though.

I'll tell ya though, when they were breaking, they were breaking! It seems like I went through 6 to 8 motherboards and 4 or 5 power supplies over a span of about 5 years.

 

[RLGL]

I just had an Asus PQ5 turbo fail about 2 months ago. It started acting funny so I ran the MS memory test. The result came back the memory was good but there were hardware issues. I went to restart but it would not get into Windows. After 3 more tries it would only boot to the BIOS. I tried removing everything except the ram and video card and the OS drive. Next I put the OS drive in another computer to see if it was good. Tried a different video card and it quit altogether. Tried a different PS and ordered new board ram etc.