Bad motherboard?

[Big Head Tech]

So I hung up my days of building and selling due to being busy. But a PC I built 2 years ago I'm trying to fix. The biggest issue is it keeps freezing during games and a few times the display cuts out. I was leaning towards a bad you and a bad HDD.

 

He took it to a local repair shop that replaced the board and charged him $409 for a $70 board and reload. The guy put windows on the HDD and disconnected the SSD idk why.

 

Fast forward I wiped both drives, loaded windows onto the SSD then plugged in the HDD. However 3D Mark kept locking up  and/or crashing so I pulled the HDD and loaded it onto the SSD. It crashed and now I get no display output.

 

I've tried my gtx 980 to and my ram stick from my PC. I do have a spare PSU and think I have another CPU to try. Otherwise I'm thinking the board died. My customer had mentioned to me originally that he didn't think the guy replaced the board because it looked the same. Below are the specs:

 

I5-2400

Corsair H60 Cooler (he installed not me)

1x8gb ddr3 1600mhz Samsung stick

Asus h61 board

EVGA GTX 660 TI 3GB

PNY 120GB SSD

1TB Seagate HDD

EVGA 500B PSU

Cooler Master N400 Case

 

If the CPU and PSU don't change anything it has to be the board.

[g12601]

It does sound like a motherboard problem, that's all I can say. 

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Sounds like a problem I had where my dying PSU killed a PCI-E slot on my motherboard, but I could be wrong

[Big Head Tech]

7 hours ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

Sounds like a problem I had where my dying PSU killed a PCI-E slot on my motherboard, but I could be wrong

His last PSU died and I replaced it with a brand new one. Luckily I have a spare one to test.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

5 hours ago, Snaeb said:

His last PSU died and I replaced it with a brand new one. Luckily I have a spare one to test.

I would try the PSU