URGENT Potentially Dead CPU.

[Nowayout59]

Not too long ago my desktop went for bust. I believe the problem was the CPU but I am hoping you can confirm. I'm planning on buying a new one tonight and I just want to check and be sure.

I was doing my casual browsing when everything started going everything started going extremely slow. The mouse would take forever to move across the screen, I couldn't do anything. I did what anyone would do and tried to reboot my computer. When ti went to start up, there was no "beep" and it only got past the BIOS on occasion. When it did get past the BIOS. It would come up with some kind of disk error. How it could not read a disk or something along those lines. (Plain white text on a black screen). I know ti is not my hard drives, because I tested them all in my friends desktop and they worked fine. The RAM is also good. I could not exactly "test" the PSU and motherboard, but I assume since it does get into the BIOS that those must be fine. I just want to make sure I am correct in my thoughts that it is the CPU, and if not what else it might be. Thanks!

[Sy_Accursed]

I'd say the mobo is fried.

Disk errors with working harddrive = can't read harddrives so faulty cables or mobo (since u checked the drives)

Doesn't always reach BIOS = mobo not running right

No beep usually means mobo screwed as the mobo is what beeps.

 

Of course a mobo dying can kill the CPU.

[Maze]

Yup, sounds like your mobo's broken.

 

If your mobo's dead, I'd suggest just buying a whole new computer. Mobos are pretty expensive, and it'd probably be more worth it to just get a new computer altogether.

[OldJoe]

Yup, sounds like your mobo's broken.

 

If your mobo's dead, I'd suggest just buying a whole new computer. Mobos are pretty expensive, and it'd probably be more worth it to just get a new computer altogether.

No. I don't know what cpu he has, but if the mobo is dead and there's still motherboards out on the market (new/used) that is the correct socket, it won't cost more than 50$ unless he has a high-end model.

[Sy_Accursed]

Yup, sounds like your mobo's broken.

 

If your mobo's dead, I'd suggest just buying a whole new computer. Mobos are pretty expensive, and it'd probably be more worth it to just get a new computer altogether.

No. I don't know what cpu he has, but if the mobo is dead and there's still motherboards out on the market (new/used) that is the correct socket, it won't cost more than 50$ unless he has a high-end model.

 

Yup. My old-ish graphics card and slight fault mobo (one of thoose faulty out of the box you don't know its fault ones) died together (graphics killed the mobo) and I replaced the mobo no problem.

As long as u get the right sockets and compatibilities its a piece of cake.

[jamesrules90]

Sounds like you have a problem.

 

I had a computer that did that once. I got a new one.

 

You could just take it into a repair shop.