Would like your opinion on the following.
New system I sold approx 15 months ago. Asus P4S800-MX board and Cell 2.6 cpu. WinXP home.
Owner is an old lady who uses it for card games and emailing relatives, so no hard work. No problems until last week when system just would not boot.
It is on a surge protector and lights on surge board still working.
Tried all the usual things and decided that board was dead.
Normally the board goes and the cpu is still okay, so I put a new Asus board in with the old cpu. No boot.
I then tried a new cel 2.6 cpu on the old board but no boot. So I just replaced the motherboard and the cpu with new ones.
Realy worried about why this has happened with both the board and cpu. No storms in the last two months but did have some bad storms about three months ago. there was a power failure last week but just went off, no surge and was off for a few hours.
I did read somewhere that if you get a bad power surge or power failure that it might not affect your system straight away. So thinking that the power supply might not have been working properly since the storms I also replaced the power supply.
I took the computer back this morning and just now the lady rang and said she was playing a game of scrablle and the screen went blank, must have still had power as she was able to take the disc out of cd rom drive and then pressed the reset button, then everything booted up okay. The monitor is an LCD, which was supplied with computer 15 months ago.
If the power supply was not working properly after storms would it have caused the slow death of board and cpu??? Would it also have caused faults with other hardware such as hard drive, just worried about replacing the lot.
Owner has a hearing problem so could not detect any difference in the noise from computer but said no funny smells she just said the night before everything was working fine and shut down okay but next day would not boot.
Any ideas thank you
