Windows 10: Am I "saddled" with a "slowly croaking" motherboard??

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  1. DaveC Win User

    Am I "saddled" with a "slowly croaking" motherboard??


    Dear TenForums:

    here again - as my 2015-vintage Biostar A85S3 motherboard is going past its fifth birthday, I've now lost the access to the Seagate 500 GB hard disk where all my data resides, which was last backed up way back at the end of August 2020.

    The current manifest of "what's in the machine" for its hardware reads as follows:

    Biostar A85S3 v.6.1 Hi-Fi motherboard
    AMD A8-6600K CPU
    Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI card (to be removed)
    16 GB of Crucial RAM memory
    Nvidia Quadro K620 2 GB video memory, workstation video card
    Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB SATA-3 SSD drive (C: volume for Windows 10 X64, D: volume for all applications)
    Seagate 500 GB SATA-3 hard drive (disconnected, due to possible failure)
    Enermax 530W Revolution modular-DC-cable power supply

    A fast-arriving set of new upgrade parts has been coming together over the past month or two, for what I fear COULD be a needed upgrade, since I HAD to install the "dreaded Win-10 v.20H2 update" about 2-3 weeks ago:

    Biostar B550GTA "Racing" AM4-socket mobo, for AMD Ryzen CPUs
    AMD Ryzen 7 3700X eight-core CPU (3.6 GHz clock, 65W normal current drain)
    Deepcool "Gammaxx-300" triple-copper heatpipe CPU cooler (vertical radiator, w/120 mm-class fan unit)
    Crucial 2.66 GHz, 16 GBx2 (32 GB) main RAM mobo memory
    Nvidia Quadro P1000 4 GB video memory, workstation video card (only item yet to arrive, due in 2-3 weeks)
    Enermax 850W output Revolution-DF modular-DC-cable power supply


    ...and since I've NEVER had the sort of reliability/longevity problems with hard drives for data storage before, that I've had with the SATA hard drives that have been mounted in the "slide-in" PLASTIC hard-drive trays in my current NZXT H230 case - when I had hard drives that mounted in METAL racks fastened in with actual metal machine screws - I'm seriously wondering if a "groundstrap" might be needed to introduce some sort of "true grounding" to my sole hard drive, used only for data storage, as it would have had in cases that HAD metal hard drive bays that metal machine screws provided some degree of "true grounding" for any hard drives, at the very least.

    Also, since I've been using the Win10 X64 install WITH v.20H2 in place for a fortnight now (as OS Build 19042.867), I've also noticed that it "just appears" to be "pushing my PC harder"...I'm getting Microsoft's own brand of "advanced BSOD" with the frown emoji-on-its-side (the ": (" variety) as well as my overheating/"spontaneous-reboot" problem, previously discussed here at TenForums, that I'd THOUGHT that the quartet of 120mm class high-airflow fans would cure - but v.20H2 "just seems" to be pushing my five-year-old moboed PC "hard enough", that the above mentioned upgrade set-of-hardware MAY have to go in a lot sooner than I thought.

    Since my late mother's home IS about to go back on the market, with me still living here (and almost everything moved out that I'm taking with me) and currently "sheltering from the pandemic", I've also been considering a purchase of an AMD Ryzen-based laptop from the local Best Buy, as I've never had a laptop of my own before - I'm planning on a $650 USD top price that I'd prefer not to exceed, as it could easily substitute for my desktop PC until the move has happened.

    So...as I'm going to try to mount the "sick Seagate" 500 GB SATA drive in a metal-case Dell 9100 Dimension PC that STILL should be working, to try and get the "sick Seagate" working just long enough (it only has a bit under 50 GB of data on it!) to archive the entire drive on a second Kingston 128 GB capacity SATA-3 thumb drive (the other has the August 30, 2020-dated backup in place already of all my data on IT). I'm seriously wondering...

    1-where is a decent place to get a RELIABLE hard disk drive for data storage, that isn't going to croak like Western Digital-brand HDs do...and "please don't say Newegg"...

    2-is a "grounding strap" inside the metal PC case a good recommendation, for a slide-in, plastic-tray-mounted hard drive...

    3-given that the house I'm living in IS on the market over the coming few months, would it just be best to store away the upgrade parts and my ailing desltop PC's console for the upcoming move, and just use any new AMD-chipped laptop I'd be getting with my monitor (Iiyama ProLite XB2485 widescreen CAD-optimized monitor), Das Keyboard 104-key regular-size PC keyboard, and Kensington Expert Mouse trackball?

    Thanks in advance for any useful answers...I do expect to "go for the AMD laptop" before too much longer, though, as in "before April's over".

    Yours Sincerely,

    :)
     
    DaveC, Apr 1, 2021
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  2. Choice of memory and motherboard... a bit stuck...

    No one who got some suggestions on this one, huh?

    I've found out that the Asus M3A78-T needs to be flashed, so then that motherboard is excluded from my list. Which motherboard and memory should I then go for? Any suggestions?
     
    minstreless, Apr 1, 2021
    #2
  3. Polo6RGTI Win User
    Asus Z370 Maximus X Motherboards

    The 9th gen processors that are currently available is still the P0 stepping and will eventually be replaced with the new R0 stepping processors.

    Here are the screenshots I took from Gigabyte's website

    Am I "saddled" with a "slowly croaking" motherboard?? [​IMG]


    Gigabyte redacted the new R0 processors from the list a day later.

    Am I "saddled" with a "slowly croaking" motherboard?? [​IMG]
     
    Polo6RGTI, Apr 1, 2021
    #3
  4. Am I "saddled" with a "slowly croaking" motherboard??

    Windows 10 and upgrading motherboard

    Hi,



    Thank you for bringing up your query on Microsoft Community.



    The only hardware changes that can negatively impact activation status once you upgrade to free version are the changes to the:

    • CPU
    • TPM
    • Motherboard replacement
    The following changes are examples of hardware changes that will NOT impact the activation status:

    • HDD/SSD
    • Video card
    • Adding extra memory
    Let us follow the steps suggested by Andre Da Costa (replied
    on July 26, 2015) in the following thread:



    Will Upgrading Motherboard After Upgrading To Windows 10 Make Me Lose My Windows License?

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ading-to/a26e93c4-6886-4b44-99cf-7bf49ccba6ee



    Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows, we are glad to assist you.
     
    Abdul_Malik, Apr 1, 2021
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