I know deader is not a real word, but it fits. My computer started hard locking while I was playing my one game. LOTRBFME. Then it started not wanting to boot cleanly, hard locking during the loading of Windows. Eventually over the next day or so, it just would not boot at all, not even POST.
While all this was happening, I decided to load ASUS probe and watch the temps of my system while I was gaming and such. What I noticed was my CPU reaching it's temp threshold while I would be in the middle of gaming. I have a Intel 3.0 ghz Prescott that has been the earmark of stability since I put it in a few years ago. I feared the worse. It was dying from over heating too many times.
Newegg to the rescue! I bought a new CPU, waited over the Thanksgiving holiday for it to arrive. and when it did, eagerly replaced my dead prescott. No POST. :-(
Newegg to the rescue! I bought a new motherboard. I had a ASUS P4P800SE that I have had for about 4 years, originally purchased with a 2.4 ghz prescott. I guess it was old and tired. O purchased a ASUS P4S800D-X which looked to be about the same mobo but with a SIS chipset insetead of an Intel chipset. Bliss! I now have a new 3.0 ghz prescott cpu and a new ASUS mobo.
In all this hoopla of finding the bad guy, I now have a good 3.0ghz prescottt CPU. Since the mobo only cost 53.00 from newegg, I think I will buy another one and upgrade my stepsons older AMD system.
happily computing - TMS
