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Power Supply Blew
Yesterday a resounding SNAP sound blasted out of the desktop and all response instantly died. The monitor still had powe rbut no video image.
Immediately to the repair shop for a new power supply but that did not produce a video response and an alternate video card was no better. It was concluded that the mother board had been effected.
Since I had replaced little items such as video card, wifi and usb3 psi board in recent past the replacement path looked to include cpu, motherboard, memory, power supply. All of these replacements are not likely to suit the original Win10 entitlement-so -a new Windows 10 Pro
Is it remotely possible to get a 'pass' and be accepted with this major change?
If it is then the SSD with existing Win10, software and my setup would slip in (Bob's Your Uncle etc)
Its a negative scene to think of redoing all the personal desktop settings.
All regular drives checked out when inserted into a dock but that dock didn't accept SSD drives. If the SSD got a shock then its a definite start over.
I have to discover more facts about using a dock. Products seemed to include that an SSD could be inserted as well as regular hdd.
The Ryzen 7-1700 and the I7-7700 look to be in the same price range but I haven't come across any reviews, reports that sing a song for either. Is there a Tenforum opinion on these motherboards?
(My computer usage is processing raw images and compiling mp4 videos alongside usual bookkeeping, doc. stuff)
Oh well, I had been idly thinking of replacing the 5 yr old box but I had expected it to be present when a new one came into existence <grin>