Hi guys,
Looks like either the motherboard or CPU in my old Win7 machine I built in 2012 has died: got a BSOD last night, seemed fine after rebooting but woke up to find the PC frozen with no video output, rebooted and it froze during POST after checking the hard drives, and now I get an endless boot cycle (2 seconds on with fans spinning and all 4 lights on the motherboard turn on, shutoff, repeat) before reaching POST. Pretty sure it's not the PSU as that's only a few months old. Even if its something fixable I think it's time to move on from this PC, as I've been having some other hardware problems lately.
So looks like time to build a new PC. Guess I'll be going with Win10, was initially against upgrading from 7 due to software/hardware incompatibilty fears (and spyware, but I'm sure MS put the same crap from 10 into updates for 7), but I don't think there's anything I normally use that isn't compatible. Even the Win7 64-bit driver for the M-audio 2496 I got in 2005 for capturing PCM seems to be compatible with Win10 according to https://homerecording.com/bbs/general-di...-a-389994/
I know this isn't a PC forum, but curious as to what people here are using. Probably not going to be doing any modern gaming my new PC, but quality 4K video playback might be nice. My 5-year old Radeon video card as well as my laptop (also Radeon) from last year do 4K output, but the video either freezes or chokes on trying to play 4K77 or UHD .mpls files in fullscreen. Also always got tearing when playing 1080p video on my desktop, but maybe that's because it was an old Intel motherboard paired with a Radeon video card? Seem to remember hearing something a long time ago about tearing due to c
Probably won't be doing any major video editing, but would like have a motherboard/CPU that can last for at least 10 years if needed, but maybe I just need to dust the inside of the PC more often...
Looks like either the motherboard or CPU in my old Win7 machine I built in 2012 has died: got a BSOD last night, seemed fine after rebooting but woke up to find the PC frozen with no video output, rebooted and it froze during POST after checking the hard drives, and now I get an endless boot cycle (2 seconds on with fans spinning and all 4 lights on the motherboard turn on, shutoff, repeat) before reaching POST. Pretty sure it's not the PSU as that's only a few months old. Even if its something fixable I think it's time to move on from this PC, as I've been having some other hardware problems lately.
So looks like time to build a new PC. Guess I'll be going with Win10, was initially against upgrading from 7 due to software/hardware incompatibilty fears (and spyware, but I'm sure MS put the same crap from 10 into updates for 7), but I don't think there's anything I normally use that isn't compatible. Even the Win7 64-bit driver for the M-audio 2496 I got in 2005 for capturing PCM seems to be compatible with Win10 according to https://homerecording.com/bbs/general-di...-a-389994/
I know this isn't a PC forum, but curious as to what people here are using. Probably not going to be doing any modern gaming my new PC, but quality 4K video playback might be nice. My 5-year old Radeon video card as well as my laptop (also Radeon) from last year do 4K output, but the video either freezes or chokes on trying to play 4K77 or UHD .mpls files in fullscreen. Also always got tearing when playing 1080p video on my desktop, but maybe that's because it was an old Intel motherboard paired with a Radeon video card? Seem to remember hearing something a long time ago about tearing due to c
Probably won't be doing any major video editing, but would like have a motherboard/CPU that can last for at least 10 years if needed, but maybe I just need to dust the inside of the PC more often...