need help with troubleshoot

[Ace_Ltech]

Hello LTT and other members of this group, i am new here but i am follower of linus for few years now, tbh i purely enjoy your help and content creation. let me get to the question directly

 

my rig is now outdated(2014 build) but still it has few horse power left i believe. 

my rig:

 

intel i5 4670

asrock h87 Pro4

4*8 GB corsair vengeance 1600MHz XMP

corsair VS 550

Gigabyte Geforce GTX 950 2GB

Hyper EVO 212x

corsair 120GB ssd, 2TB + 4TB HDD seagate

others leaving for for now

 

story is when about an year passed after my build, i had a problem on ethernet port  and after few days of it , computer dies totally , troubleshoot that time which came on a conclusion taht MoBo gone bad, RMA the MoBo , they repaired it . on same time next year same no boot , RMA it again and they replaced the board this time. and on again this year about month of feb it shows some POST error, this type of beep code is not listed on AMI though the bios is AMI. troubleshoot it again and gone for RMA the mobo again, it was about to end of warranty , yet they replaced the board with another one, but when i set it up , same thing happened , boot loop and POST error code. i have another system with low power for testing linux flavour and other experiments, it has 4Gb of ram stick 1333Mhz, when i used it on my main rig , it booted up without error but but but onboard lan is not working , any of the PCIe x1 slot adapter is not recognizing  not even in live linux distros, but that same adapter is working under  x16 PCIe 3.0 slot. and for those ram sticks i check and place to my second rig, now running  2 sticks @ 1333 mhz without any error, so what i am guessing CPU has gone bad or i am missing something. this is why i am posting and seeking all your valuable help. i will change my main rig  but want to use it for year or 2 , my previous machine i used it around 4- 4 1/2 years . that one i didnt face any issues till i gave it. 

 

my rig's main workload is mainly light gaming like Crysis3, BF, some steam games, FPS games, moderate level of downloads, checking few number of linux distros, and coding which doesnt load much.

 so is my CPU (mainly IMC) good or bad (cant RMA ) warranty ends on march 2017 or i cannot test it elsewhere

is my RAM sticks bad , ram has warranties but i have memtest it but found no errors

i know the last RMA replaced motherboard is bad as PCIe x1 and ethernet should have worked as it is controlled by south bridge PCH

so my earnest request, pls guide me through. i cannot afford to buy new as i am on tight budget. if one part is messing i can try to change it for now, otherwise i have to wait till i can afford to buy new rig. Thank you in advance.  

 

 

[WWicket]

That wall of poorly formatted text is hard to parse.

Did they fully replace the mobo the last time, or did they 'repair' and return it? Given all the past issues with the motherboard, ruling it out as the culprit seems like a good first step.

Try using a single one of your 8gb ram sticks, to see if it is actually swapping the memory module that helped, or if the issue is only with some of the slots.

 

[Cyracus]

I don't have a good history with asrock, imo they don't make good stuff, and I would guess that's the heart of your problem. Since swapping ram resolved issues that indicates to me that your cpu is likely not your culprit, if it was you'd still have the exact same issues

[Ace_Ltech]

59 minutes ago, WWicket said:

That wall of poorly formatted text is hard to parse.

Did they fully replace the mobo the last time, or did they 'repair' and return it? Given all the past issues with the motherboard, ruling it out as the culprit seems like a good first step.

Try using a single one of your 8gb ram sticks, to see if it is actually swapping the memory module that helped, or if the issue is only with some of the slots.

 

i did check all of the sticks one by one, none of them worked in any of the slot, though the swapped ram did only work on one slot( slot extreme right),on rest slots no boot error code but displays black screen only, dust is not the prblem as i do clean every 2-3 month gap. first rma- repaired, 2nd - replace, 3rd- replace, thank you

Edited June 14, 2017 by Ace_Ltech
made error one place

[WWicket]

Sounds like mobo or cpu. That is some horrible luck with your motherboard man-- I feel for you.

[Ace_Ltech]

53 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

I don't have a good history with asrock, imo they don't make good stuff, and I would guess that's the heart of your problem. Since swapping ram resolved issues that indicates to me that your cpu is likely not your culprit, if it was you'd still have the exact same issues

maybe, i am really confused atm ?

[Ace_Ltech]

2 minutes ago, WWicket said:

Sounds like mobo or cpu. That is some horrible luck with your motherboard man-- I feel for you.

what can be done, made a mistake from my end as i want with price/ performance build , i had no issue with my previous build which had intel board, it was seriously rock solid compare to asrock, if i have build a new rig i will opt either asus (if my pocket fits) or gigabyte hope it wont bite me back again, thank you for your help ?

[WWicket]

Yeah. I had an Asrock board that never gave me issues and an Asus board that the cpu retention ring broke on so I had to use drywall screws to hold on the cooling block... feel like it is more luck of the draw than the specific companies.

[Ace_Ltech]

3 minutes ago, WWicket said:

Yeah. I had an Asrock board that never gave me issues and an Asus board that the cpu retention ring broke on so I had to use drywall screws to hold on the cooling block... feel like it is more luck of the draw than the specific companies.

maybe and i am definitely not lucky on asrock board ?atm , future cant tell ?