My motherboard is broken. Sometimes the sound will not be on for my computer, and the dual monitor function is also broken. This computer fried several times because of the motherboard. Even my old graphics card melted.

Here are the specs



Planning on also upgrading to Windows 7 soon after the new motherboard. I don't want to spend too much. I use this computer to play SC2 and LoL.

it sounds like driver issues.

Upgrade to windows 7 before you buy a new motherboard and see if it's still an issue.

What fried on the computer? PSUs are more commonly the problem for something frying. Motherboards or cpus are usually the ones doing the frying, though gpus can be fried too usually due to driver issues.

Where can I buy Windows 7 for cheap?

I'm also skeptical about the mobo being broken. And when it is, usually the computer won't work at all or freezes frequently. Frying hardware is pretty uncommon, as rockz said.

Why do you think it's the mobo? Any evidence?

Download the iso from Microsoft. They are offering it for free. It'll be a fully functional version for 30 days.
Then you'll need a key to activate it which you can probably get from eBay for cheap. Just make sure it's no scam.

I upgraded to Windows 7. Did not fix the problem at all. I am still facing the sound card problem.

My dual monitor also does not work at all. I tried switching with several monitors.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Oct 14 2013, 9:12 pm by Echo.

for audio, are you able to swap out your speakers with headphones or use the front port?
for video, both ports do not work, or you are just unable to use them? How does the problem manifest itself exactly?

I have to use the port in the front, but sometimes it does not work. It's like 50/50.

For my video card, the bottom port does not work.

I can't quite make head or tails of the symptoms, to be honest. Maybe it is something with the mobo maybe not. But first I'd try calling a PC adept friend over who checks your BIOS settings.

Then there's other things you can try like removing the power cord and switching the computer on (to remove any charge). Or try to replace / reinsert RAM or put it into other memory banks.
I'd also try to install a different video card and see if you can get all ports to work (in single monitor mode first, one after another).
Also try switching to onBoard sound (the sound card is discrete right?)

Those are all pretty generic suggestions and will probably just help to gain more information rather to actually fix the problem.