Microsoft fried my motherboard? changed my windows?

[graneth]

I'm typing this out on my phone so it'll be short and sweet.

Specs:
OS:

8pro w/media center (upgraded to 8.1)
Mobo:

Asus cm1831 motherboard ( board from a cm1831 desktop)
Cpu:

fx-6350
Gpu:

gets 450 (placeholder**)
Ram:

g.skill(F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL) (2x4gb, underclocked to 1600) got better stuff because was upgrading eventually.
PSU:

overkill, but it once ran SLI: rosewill xtreme 950w [the black chromey one]
Storage:

1x Kingston hyper X ssd 120gb
1x 1tb wd hdd, think it's the 1002faex one, would check but on a train lol.


So, to start things off, I'm on the phone with Asus, got a ticket going, and MS is just giving me absurd bullshit runaround.

I'm mostly wondering of the how, rather than a fix, as it's borked anyways.

Story:
I was upgrading! Yay!
But not yet.

I'd ordered me a boxing day r9 290x, as I took my old 580, and threw a watercolor on it ( g10 kraken bracket, thermaltake water 2.0 performer) and gave it to my boyfriend for Christmas replacing the 450 I was using ( borrowed as placeholder so could at least internet lol).
Getting ready for the new card, as my windows was getting bogged down a bit anyways, and I'd had tons of different graphics drivers in my slut of a PC, id decided a fresh start would rock.

Obviously a bad idea considering the outcome, but I decided to just use the Win8 built in reset function since i didn't want to faff about with going win8 pro> add media center, upgrade to 8.1 again.

I backed up important junk manually, into my secondary HDD, and hit go.

Did it's thing, upon completing I was left with win. 8.1N and a dead network nic.

Gave it the good old college try, tethered my phone for net, downloaded every possible driver for the board, nothing.

After the 2nd restart it hung on post, so I cleared my CMOS, fixed the hang.
Installed windows 7 to continue debugging, cause I couldn't install 8pro since I didn't have my original key, three upgraded one as it was replaced by it.

After about 3 more hours of trying drivers, workarounds, querying, it just kinda stopped.
D.E.D.
Would stay on for about 10 mins, then die, that's it's current behavior.

All my other components are completely fine, tested in other mobo.
Replaced the broken one with an m97a r2.0
Everything up and rubbing no problems whatsoever.

There was no change in the hardware during the process.
The 450 was installed about a week prior, and the system used to sustain a 580 no problem.
All I did was hit the reset button, aaaaaand it flopped.

"Everybody do the flop!"

[sterreprop]

Can you still boot into your BIOS? if you can the mobo is not "Fried". 

[Bloodyvalley]

Can you still boot into your BIOS? if you can the mobo is not "Fried".

QFT

[QueenDemetria]

"Everybody do the flop!"

Its pretty hard for a OS to cause hardware failure, but I think your motherboard died purely out of coincidence. I just hope that your RMA process isn't too painful lol.

[QueenDemetria]

Your boyfriend?

 

You're gay?

 

 

because no girls are on this forum, they are a mythical creature.

Why is this an issue? And yes, there are girls on this forum lol.

[William12h]

Why didnt you just Download the drivers to a USB from another computer and then plug the USB in to your computer >.> 

 

and it flopped? So no power to the MB, Broken PSU or what?

[William12h]

QFT

His Profile says male 

[graneth]

Can you still boot into your BIOS? if you can the mobo is not "Fried". 

It only does last the 10 mins before dying even in the bios now, just fails. After it does fail I end up having to clear the CMOS to get back in to the bios again

[sterreprop]

Your boyfriend?

 

You're gay?

 

 

because no girls are on this forum, they are a mythical creature.

I don't think this is realy special nowadays...and i don't think your comment will really help him figure out what happened with his pc.

[graneth]

QFT

And?

[William12h]

I find it cute, just saying But maybe your profile pic is persuading me.

And?

[graneth]

Why didnt you just Download the drivers to a USB from another computer and then plug the USB in to your computer >.> 

 

and it flopped? So no power to the MB, Broken PSU or what?

 

Power works fine, just no networking via onboard network nic.

Used my phone for net to get the drivers as I couldn't find my flash drive. Think I left it at the BF's house

[graneth]

I find it cute, just saying But maybe your profile pic is persuading me.

I'm glad you like it :3 it's my favorite icon. 

Socute

[TDP_Equinox]

Try booting into linux. 
You say it stays on for about 10 minutes? 

Make a bootable linux USB or CD and boot to that. 

Try updating the BIOS. 

As for why, if it IS dead, it certainly was not because of re installing windows. 
IF it is dead, it was for some other reason and it was just a really silly coincidence.

[graneth]

I'm still confused as to why (Microsoft won't give me any possibilities as to why) that it would have given me a copy of 8.1N in the first place seeing as how I'd initially went 8 pro>8pro w/mc > 8.1pro w/mc

[graneth]

Try booting into linux. 

You say it stays on for about 10 minutes? 

Make a bootable linux USB or CD and boot to that. 

Try updating the BIOS. 

As for why, if it IS dead, it certainly was not because of re installing windows. 

IF it is dead, it was for some other reason and it was just a really silly coincidence.

I'llI'll try Linux, see what it has to say, but had managed to update the bios through the software Asus gives out for within windows bios flashing.

[Master Disaster]

Sounds like you upgraded the GPU the one with a huge tdp and your PSU gave up to me.

[SLPNTIM]

try the linux thing it might be the whole issue. try the power supply with something else

[graneth]

Sounds like you upgraded the GPU the one with a huge tdp and your PSU gave up to me.

Yet it handled a gtx 580 before, and a 480 before that (450 was only a placeholder), as well, on the new motherboard, it handles the same system, with the 290x already installed.

 

As I'd mentioned, this occurred before I'd changed any hardware.

[Master Disaster]

Yet it handled a gtx 580 before, and a 480 before that (450 was only a placeholder), as well, on the new motherboard, it handles the same system, with the 290x already installed.

As I'd mentioned, this occurred before I'd changed any hardware.

In that case its time to start eliminating variables. Unplug everything non essential so all PCIe except one GPU, all HDDs except your main one, any optical drives and all USBs except mouse and keyboard. Fire her up and see if she outlasts the 10 mins.

If you really want to strip it down entirely and rebuild it back on the motherboard box outside the case, excessive but makes life infinity easier.

Have you checked your temps? Its also possible its shutting down cause GPU or CPU is overheating.

[graneth]

I'll try benching it, already tried with just the sad boot drive, keyboard, and mouse using the integrated graphics from the motherboard.

 

I'll be able to provide more information / test results in the next day or 2. 

At work currently, so I'm away from my rig.

 

I'll have to find a way to test it again without having to take apart the rebuilt one.

[Master Disaster]

I'll try benching it, already tried with just the sad boot drive, keyboard, and mouse using the integrated graphics from the motherboard.

 

I'll be able to provide more information / test results in the next day or 2. 

At work currently, so I'm away from my rig.

 

I'll have to find a way to test it again without having to take apart the rebuilt one.

Cool, your a clever girl

Defo check CPU & GPU temps, I remember when I had an 8350, I didn't tighten up the hyper 212 properly and it overheated and shut down. I had to reset CMOS before it'd boot again.

[Psykomantis00]

This is why xbox ones and ps4's are selling. 

[TDP_Equinox]

This is why xbox ones and ps4's are selling. 

You're an ass.

If you have nothing helpful to say, don't say anything. 

[graneth]

Ended up taking it back apart to test the old board again, temps were done 28c on the cpu, with 32c on the GPU. So I dunno

 

Wasn't really expecting anything out if it anyways, Microsoft still won't respond to my queries, and I'm working on the RMA with Asus, even if they won't replace it, I still want to send it to them so they can at maybe tell me what happened.

 

 

I'm still stumped as to why the reset windows option had changed my  8pro w/mc (that had been upgraded to 8.1 pro w/m,) to 8.1N

 

 

 and when I called in, that they said my key was only for a 15 day trial of media center edition(8.0) after being activated feb 2013