ProximaOfZeal

Since you already have a friend with a PC that can handle your GPU, frankly speaking it'd be best if you could borrow his PSU to test your setup. I used to have a problem where the PC was refusing to boot unless I kept trying for a while, and once it booted, it worked normally. I chased the problem by replacing/removing every single part to no avail, until I replaced the PSU (which I did last, because I was convinced it's ok since it was a recommended brand and model and not some random blacklisted box) - and then the problem magically disappeared.

It seems that @aisle9 got a HP OEM 2070 Super looking just like that, but in their topic I don't see a follow-up on whether it was legit or not.

Given that you touched the ground part of the usb plug to the card, it's fairly likely that you just blew one or more of the 12V rail fuses on your card, or you might've damaged the 12V power on the PCIe slot on the motherboard. Either way the only way to know for sure would be to locate these elements and test them with a multimeter - which does require some basic electronics knowledge and equipment.... Well, good luck...

It'd have to be countries, not just groups. In India the whole thing was backed by the government, so most likely it'd mean passing a law that required for the new app store to come pre-installed on new devices sold domestically, along with google's store. If it was just some group of developers alone, it wouldn't really catch on since they'd have a hard time to convince people to install it on their own.

Thanks I'll also look for it. Can you read what I edit-added in my previous post?

Ye I know I know, just waging possible options in case you won't be fortunate enough to find the board. It being an embedded XP is probably less important than drivers for the radar card, and as you said the manufacturer isn't providing you with any software... I also read on another forum that you don't even have access to the ship right now as it has sailed to America - quite a pickle >.< Do you know what exact radar is that? Maybe the software has been uploaded somewhere by someone, it would be a miracle but who knows, for sure it would make it easier if it were necessary to reinstall OS on new hardware. Edit: Also, is the type of damage on board known? On the german forum someone suggested trying to replace the capacitors on existing board. Looking through images it apperas the board is using all through-hole capacitors so they should be very easy to replace even for someone unskilled in electronics. Perhaps it's worth a try and they're all cheap, off the shelf components.

I've been looking around the net a bit aswell and I'm sorry but it's very unlikely you'll find this exact board - Socket 370 is really old by now. However, while you might not be able to find a fitting S370 board, since it's just a standard PC board you could try to look for something similar that Windows XP would work on and has the same I/O ports. On AMD side you should look through microATX boards with Socket A, Socket 754, maybe even Socket 939. On Intel's side you could try some early Pentium 4 boards like Socket 423, Socket 478, maybe even early LGA775. Well, something with integrated graphics probably, as I guess you were not using any graphics card with it? With all those options it's impossible there isn't something that will fit, it also requires a new CPU but those are really dirt cheap nowadays. With more powerful CPUs cooling in a confined small space might be a problem but you could either look for a weaker CPU or underclock it to run it cooler in most cases. Have you considered just pluggin in some cheap Pentium 4/early Core era laptop with XP on it and an external docking station for extra I/O? Or do you need the PCI slots for some specific radar hardware? Edit: Also, are you absolutely positive that the motherboard failed and not, for example, the Power Supply?

Huuuh... I hope it's not THAT German NGO ship that is smuggling people across mediterranean sea that one hears about every now and then ? On a more serious note though, that's some really specific problem you're having right there. What do you mean by saying another board won't fit? It looks like a fairly standard microATX Socket370 board to me ? What's so special about it?

Technically speaking it IS literally THE worst FX processor though ?

Oh wow it's showing some creepy stuff right there. As for fuc... messing around with BIOS, did you perform a hard reset on it? If not, tt's possible that the CMOS settings have somehow become corrupted - unplug the computer from power completely and remove the CMOS battery for like 5 minutes for good measure (really just a few seconds would normally be okay but it won't hurt to keep it out longer) As for power, well it's just a dual-module CPU, and the slowest one. I think AMD was a bit generous with the TDP rating considering they gave the same rating to FX 81xx CPUs with twice the modules and just a little lower frequency

Pretty sure 10nm was supposed to launch in 2017 if not 2016 so at this point anything they say about it should be taken with a huge grain of salt. I wouldn't be THAT surprised if they just end up dropping 10nm completely and go straight to 7nm, however it's more likely that they'll sit on the 10nm once they succeed for a while just for the sake of the money they poured onto it.

Usually RAM will remain stable if you tweak latency a little bit (I'm running two different 1600 CL11 sticks together at CL9 with no problems), but I'm not sure if laptops allow such tweaks (I believe big OEM brands like HP or Dell don't). But I agree with @Streetguru, I've been pretty much buying only used RAM for my laptops and I never had any problems, just make sure that the seller has tested it. Furthermore, in my desktop I'm using DDR3 ram that I found in electronic scrap, it has been lying in the bottom of a box full of old liquidated office trash, crushed by it and all, and it still ended up working perfectly.

Helpful... eh not really, I'm afraid. As stated above, you're wasting money right now. I have a Phenom II and those CPUs simply don't benefit from fast RAM because the memory controller on CPU is just too slow. OCing the CPU NB would improve that a little, but still not near enough to benefit from a 2400 DDR3 kit.

It's a Skylake(6th gen) motherboard that doesn't even (at least officially) support Kaby Lake(7th gen), so no it will NOT support Coffee Lake (8th gen) CPUs

Whoa, that wouldn't happen even with serious electrostatic buildup. 6cm arc would be lots and lots of kilovolts, the only way I could imagine that happen it would be a thunder hitting your power line. It'd help if you could make some close-up photos of the area from different angles. I mean, it'd help to try and determine the cause, if there was something arcing then it's most likely cold dead.