13-09-12, 06:34 PM
I bought a Cyberpower PC in December 2008, finally replacing my ageing 550Mhz, 768Mb monstrosity. The PC has given me no end of problems and has now died. I do not expect this from a PC which cost over £1500.
Dec 2008 Got PC (two internal drives)
June 2010 First hard drive (boot) died, replaced
Oct 2011 Second hard drive died, replaced
Dec 2012 Graphics card died, replaced
Feb 2012 Power supply died, replaced
March 2012 Replacement drive (boot) from June 2010 died, replaced
September 2012 Replacement drive (boot) from March 2012 died
Got some PC engineers to look at it. Reported today that the motherboard is F*cked. They have never seen anything like it. It is drawing all sorts of different voltages. They reckon it's been dodgy right from the start.
So replace it, or replace components. It's a Coolermaster case, i7 920 Asus P6T Deluxe, 6GB RAM. The replacement graphics card Radeon HD6850 doesn't work with Windows 7 (used to be Vista).
Not sure it's cheaper to get new motherboard and CPU and pay to have fitted, when I also need new hard drives, another graphics card.
Sigh
Dec 2008 Got PC (two internal drives)
June 2010 First hard drive (boot) died, replaced
Oct 2011 Second hard drive died, replaced
Dec 2012 Graphics card died, replaced
Feb 2012 Power supply died, replaced
March 2012 Replacement drive (boot) from June 2010 died, replaced
September 2012 Replacement drive (boot) from March 2012 died
Got some PC engineers to look at it. Reported today that the motherboard is F*cked. They have never seen anything like it. It is drawing all sorts of different voltages. They reckon it's been dodgy right from the start.
So replace it, or replace components. It's a Coolermaster case, i7 920 Asus P6T Deluxe, 6GB RAM. The replacement graphics card Radeon HD6850 doesn't work with Windows 7 (used to be Vista).
Not sure it's cheaper to get new motherboard and CPU and pay to have fitted, when I also need new hard drives, another graphics card.
Sigh