No stress. We are all guilty (myself included) of being a bit impatient when less-experienced people ask for help but don't give the info in the way we expect it.
Just take your time to read each post in detail and reply with the necessary info and you'll be fine.
I just want to confirm your timeline - is this correct?
1. You bought the PC from them but when you hooked it up and switched it on, it didn't POST
2. You took it back to them and they tested a few things, including GPU and mobo. But they've now concluded it is likely the CPU
3. Now they are sending it back to you, still not POSTing, while waiting for the new CPU to arrive?
Seems odd that they would send the still-not-working PC back to you. But if they've gone through the motions, and assuming they have been thorough, then it's not unreasonable to accept that the CPU is the issue and to wait for a replacement.
so the timeline looks like this
1) bought all my parts individually over the past 6 month from wootware and carb members
- second hand cpu from carb member with 3 year warranty - brand new ram from a carb member - new power supply from wootware- Aorus b550m pro mobo from carb. Everything is under warrenty.
2) Took the parts to computer mania to get built. After they put the pc together it worked for less than 2 days. Then suddenly it just stopped posting when I tried booting it up. Like the screen would be totally black but everything seemed like they got power and the fans would run and the rob on the ram would like up. So I took it back to them and its got tested and they said its 100% the motherboard.
3) Sent back the motherboard for testing. In the mean time I bought a b450 tomahawk so I could work while I waited and then sell it off when the other one gets sent back.
4) took the new board the new board to them and still the same problem and I even asked them to update the bios and still nothing. I even brought my old psi incase that was the problem ( it was an antic 750w gold). The original board came back ( the aorus) and still the same issue.
5) I was told to wait a few days while they were testing and I was promised that its definitely the board again.
6) So now we're at this point. Gave them a call and they said to me its definitely the cpu now. I asked him if they used a new one to check and he told me that they don't have any in stock. And the confusing part is that I asked him a week ago, what if its actually the cpu and he replied "can't be it because it gets hot".
ATM I was thinking of just getting a new cpu and send the other one back for testing. But I'm gonna try be patient and not just throw money away like I did before.
I'm gonna try read all the messages again and see whats the recommended way forward.
Hope this makes sense, especially with my spelling and grammar issues lol and also gives a better description to whats going on.
