Recent content by sharf

Apparently in my past troubleshooting I missed something. I tried reseating the GPU (a ridiculous undertaking), which didn't fix the problem, and rotated all the RAM sticks in the DIMMS and found a bad DIMM. Since there are only 3 sticks that's fine. Though it doesn't bode well for this...

As I said, the repair shop said it was the mobo, and I've replaced that. Though it is possible the new mobo is bad too.

CPU is seated properly, and thermal paste is good. It has 3 sticks of RAM and 4 DIMMs, I've tried them all in each DIMM, nothing. Also the HDD works fine in another computer, already backed it up.

I had an Asus G51JX-A1 that I had given to my brother. Recently, it died on him while it was in screensaver. His screensaver was just a slideshow and he noticed the picture hadn't changed in a while. He went over to it to wake it up and it was frozen. He killed the power and tried rebooting. The...