Dead Desktop PC - options?

If you are able to get a computer system put together by yourself or a friend, you could always just buy some parts (no video card or ram) and then just use your current video card and ram. I'm unsure if your power supply from the HP is a standard power supply or some proprietary one. I wouldn't be surprised if the power supply is proprietary. I believe Dell used to do this.

If you have the money then I think you would be better off just buying a pre-built system. For example, this is on sale for $1400 https://www.newegg.ca/abs-ali564/p/N82E ... 6883360194. There are cheaper pre-built systems. Such as, this is $1250 but is not on sale https://www.newegg.ca/skytech-st-blaze2 ... 6883289207.

I didn't check how much ram is in either of those systems but you could put your existing ram into a system that you buy. Keep in mind that if the system that you buy has faster ram then it will slow down to your existing (slower) ram.

Maybe you can just sell your GeForce 1070 and even your ram. I'm not sure what they're worth on the market though.

You can put your existing harddrives into a new computer and use them as additional drives (D drive, E drive, etc). You'll probably have to format them though.

I would just buy a budget barebones kit

Mini Tower Case
500 Watt Power Supply
B450 Motherboard
Ryzen 3600

Should cost ~500$ Tax in shipped to QC

You can reuse your RAM, SSD and video card

Mind as well reuse the CPU too if it's came AM4 Ryzen 1700.

peteryorkuca wrote: ↑ Mind as well reuse the CPU too if it's came AM4 Ryzen 1700.

Note that first gen Ryzen doesn't work in B550/X570 motherboards. But B450 will do.

Gee wrote: ↑ I would just buy a budget barebones kit

Mini Tower Case
500 Watt Power Supply
B450 Motherboard
Ryzen 3600

Should cost ~500$ Tax in shipped to QC

You can reuse your RAM, SSD and video card

Thank you, that's the way I decided to go in. Didn't read the comments on the CPU until I bought the replacement, I'll probably cancel the 3600.

Spinifex wrote: ↑ Thank you, that's the way I decided to go in. Didn't read the comments on the CPU until I bought the replacement, I'll probably cancel the 3600.

You plan on reusing your 1700?

Gee wrote: ↑ You plan on reusing your 1700?

Yeah, if it's still functional.

Spinifex wrote: ↑ Yeah, if it's still functional.

If the problem is a corrupt BIOS, you should be good. But I think you are better off upgrading the CPU

Probably a long shot but it should be possible to swap the BIOS chip from a dead motherboard. Back in the days of AMD Athlon, I have read of people who would boot into the bios, swap the chips and then reflash the corrupt chip from the booted BIOS.

It works as the program code for the flashing is in the RAM, and so can flash the corrupt chip. May not be worth the effort though

Hold up. I think you got hustled. The case is proprietary yes, but it's just a weird shape and that's it. I think the computer shop looked at it from the outside and automatically tried to upsell you a new system.

I looked at this teardown video of your PC...


The motherboard appears to be a standard micro ATX board, hell even the power supply appears to be standard ATX! Now, I don't have it in front of me to measure to be 100% sure, but just looking at where the screw holes are in that video I am reasonably sure it's standard mATX.

All you may need is a new motherboard! For a ryzen 1700 you'll need a motherboad using a 300 series chipset, some 450 series may also support the chip but you'll need to do your homework on compatibility.