A new motherboard with pci?
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basically mate,your motherboard has fryed,and this is what is making your cpu unusable,the cpu is working.just not the motherboard
as for erasing all your hard drive this is utter tripe,simply take out your hard drive ,try to borrow a spare working p.c,add the hard drive as a "slave drive" and then use the borrowed p.c to copy all your files from your "slave drive" then at least you will have them backed up just in case
when you buy a new motherboard(or get one)its just a case of carefully taking out your processor from your broken motherboard and placing it in your new board,then simply attaching all components(power supply,hard drive,cd rom,all case leads,floppy ect)then when you boot up you should just go into bios and set the time,date and hard drive/cd rom configurations,then after you have checked everything is correctly connected just boot up
the problem with these pc world guys is they are trying to sell as much to you as they can,if you needed a ide(hard drive lead)lead,they would say you need a complete new hard drive and if you needed a extra 256mb ram,they would say you need 1gb,,its all about sales
personally you would be safer to either do it yourself(with online help..from myself if you want) or take it to a independent p.c shop,they arent as bad as places like pc world
if you need assistance let me know the following
1)make and model of p.c
2)motherboard model number
3)c.p.u model(plus socket type)
4)memory type
5)hard drive type(s.a.t.a or p.a.t.a)
any more help let me know
good luck!
for 1 thing the guy from pc world is an idiot installing a new motherboard and pci graphics card will not erase ur hard drive so just ignore what he said and get it put in
none of your files will be erase. your files including your operating system is stored on your hard disk. hard disk is a seperate component from mother board. so dont worry.
Well this guy needs more education, he should have approached this problem from a different direction. The first order of business is always data backup/recovery, then work towards a hardware/software solution.
How I deal with this is to boot the the dead system to a live linux cd called Trinity Rescue, start an smb file server, then transfer the files to my system, burn them to a cd/dvd, then repair the system.
As long as your hard drive hasn't been formatted your data is safe and very easy to recover with Trinity.
Ok what all the othere guys say is correct the guy is an idiot, but one thing you need to be aware of, some new mother boards have sata interface for hard drives rather than IDE you hard drive is an IDE interface, make sure he puts in a mother board that stills uses an IDE interface and not the new SATA because then you will not be able to use your old hard drive inside the computer, you will then need to get a hard drive caddy to read it, just a thought !
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