[pchelpers] Lost main computer (forwarded on behalf of PC)

I lost my main computer.
It was a gigabyte N4SLI-A9 with a AMD 64 3700 cpu.
I upgraded to a AMD 64 X2 4200.
At first I installed the new cpu, and hooked everything back up and it 
wouldn't power on.
I disconnected all the cables and took it to my work bench. I plugged in 
the power and it started.
So I took it back to my table, hooked it back-up and it started right up.
I left it running for a week. Yesterday I turned it off (for some reason 
I can't remember) and it would not power back up. The Power supply 
checked out and so did all the cables. I even tested the panel switch. I 
went through the process of disconnecting all cables and cards. Once or 
twice it fired up, but I couldn't get it to repeat it by doing the same 
thing over again.

I came to the conclusion that my motherboard was out. So using my other 
computer I went online and ordered another one.

The yestersday morning for the fun of it I removed the new cpu and put 
the old one back in. Of all things she powered right up.
After turning it off and on and it still stayed running I then concluded 
my new cpu went bad.
So I went to Newegg and RMA it and sent it off by UPS.

This morning I woke up to two error messages.
The first was a "delay write fail"
And the next 30 was "Failed to save file e:\. Data was lost. Please save 
file to another location"

After clicking 30 times to get rid of all the messages I found that 
explorer wouldn't open.
I then rebooted. The post screen came up sitting at "detecting Hard drives"
It sat there for a while and I knew I would have to do a power off reboot.
So I powered off and the computer now won't power back up.

So I do not know if the new cpu was bad or not. My new MB will be here 
Thur. Hopefully the old cpu is still good and I can use it until the 
other new one gets back.

Seems like I have been having this problem a lot this week. I was mowing 
grass Monday on my riding lawn mower which I just got and rebuilt when I 
turned it off and parked it. When I got back on I found the transmission 
was locked down.

Pc

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