NEWS-Emergency

Update - September 17th

Morning everyone, hope this finds you well. Today will be the 6th day the computer at the shop. I called them yesterday as I was told the day before I'd be called and didn't receive any. I was told that they had one last diagnostic to run on the system but they believed the ram was the cause of all the problems. I find that hard to believe since that ram was replaced not that long ago but if they fix the issues I was having at this point I don't care. I do wish they would call like they say they will or explain that they're backed up because I don't feel great about having to call them to ask. I don't want to seem like an impatient prick but it's going to be 6 days since I left it there for what I was told was going to be 2-3.

I'm really sorry about this wait. I may be refunding everyone for September if this keeps going any longer.

I greatly appreciate your patience and support.

Update - September 15th

Evening everyone, hope this finds you well. I'm still waiting on the diagnostics for my PC. I left it in the shop on Monday and only received a call yesterday asking if it was ok to wipe the SSD. Still not sure when I'll hear back again but I'll be calling tomorrow.

I'm really sorry again for the lack of work. It's been tough not stressing out but I greatly appreciate your patience and support.

Original Post - September 12th

Good morning everyone, hope this finds you well.

I sound like a broken record player at this point but I've been dealing with computer problems yet again for the last two weeks. I took it to a shop just now and waiting on results. This means I'm currently unavailable to work so I'd please appreciate your patients.

Full Story

I learned that the MOBO I recently purchased has a faulty LAN adapter that isn't spoken about much online leaving me unable to use an ethernet connection. I can't have it replaced so I'd need to send it to be repaired which could take months if I was even able to get a hold of customer support. I opted to buy a NIC to install a new ethernet port and thankfully that worked. It's a band aid but at least I found a solution.

Despite wiping my SSD multiple times it still displayed the issues from before that would lead to inevitable blue screens. This means that perhaps the original MOBO I replaced last month was not the problem leaving only the CPU, SSD and PSU in question. I highly doubt it's the PSU as nothing indicated it to be a power concern. Having wiped the SSD several times and reinstalling Windows I also didn't believe that was the issue. So I started looking up CPU replacements when I noticed something curious regarding the CPU and the BIOS of the two MOBOs about the BIOS software being out of date causing issues. I looked into it and the BIOS was out of date. So I decided to update it via USB and once I had Windows refused to boot. I managed to get it to start up but it would immediately crash flagging several different errors regarding missing/corrupted files. Next course of action was to wipe the SSD again and reinstall Windows. Unfortunately I couldn't access the drive before this happened so it means I lost a decent amount of work. I proceeded to install Windows through a USB and it could not finish the installation. I'm incredibly stressed out over this since this PC is my means of work and now I had no options left. I've basically gotten to the end of my knowledge with this and decided it best to find someone else to repair it.

I found a shop nearby with good reviews and just got back from leaving it there. It's run by two older men. One of which looks like "the cleaner" Geri from Toy Story 2 which left a grimace on my face. It was refreshing having a conversation with them as they both seemed knowledgeable about PCs. I'm waiting to hear back from them to see what's the problem and where to proceed from there. Really hoping this can be solved smoothly and I can finally be rid of this PC stress that's had a chokehold on me for the better part of 2 years.

Thank you again for your patience and support.