Help - Windows won't boot after Motherboard repair

Anirudh_Dhapte

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I have an Asus P8h77-m motherboard, that had shutdown few times, because of its anti surge function and i thought this was a PSU problem and bought a new Corsair VS550. After hooking it up and switching it on the same anti surge problem creeped up and the computer shut down for good and wont start but led was on. So i took it to the local IT guy and had it repaired. The motherboard now works but Windows keeps crashing with blue screen everytime i boot, It won't even let me reinstall windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 


If "the local IT guy repaired it", and it doesn't work....he didn't repair it.
 
Depends on what he did. If he only exchanged the board for a different model and the op didn't want him to do more, then that would not be the tech's problem. However if the tech tried to solder or whatever, then that could be on the tech. Might be best to talk to the tech, ask what he did. You might just be better off to replace the board and then to invest in a UPS.
 


"Here. It's broken. Replace the motherboard. I don't care if it actually works"
That would be an unlikely conversation.
 
I'm saying it's possible that someone would want the tech to replace the board or whatever, but then to let the user deal with the software portions so they didn't rack up a bigger bill. Not saying that's what happened here, it's just possible. Also, the op states that he just had it repaired. But does not specify if the tech actually replaced the board, or was doing solder work etc.

Also, I would point out, not all techs are equal. Some of them have no business touching a computer. Some guys are what I like to call tech cowboys. They just do whatever they think or want and not really know what they're doing but think they know a lot. In other words, don't go to the cheapest place in town. The guys that charge a little more usually do for a reason.
 


Exactly so. There are some I would not trust to actually find the power button, with printed directions and a bright light on it.

Any competent tech would have verified the thing actually works.
 


I can boot from the CD but it ends up in BSOD everytime i try to reinstall windows
 
Then in that case you should maybe give the tech a call and ask what was done. I would also wonder about the ram if that was good or not though. Maybe try to remove all but one stick of ram and run memtest86 on it from a bootable cd if possible. Do that for each stock until you find one that is giving issues, that's if that's what's going on. If not I'd suspect the motherboard. One reason I don't use Asus motherboards. They make fine looking boards don't get me wrong, but when I see a bunch of their boards on the return/open box rack at microcenter, that does not make me feel good about buying them.
 
Hi all thank you for your comments. I took the rig back to the techie and he switched ram sticks and motherboard and processor to see which one was faulty, Turns out processor was faulty, I am gonna have to change it.