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I killed him. I killed him dead.

The status so far, for those keeping score at home:

Failed.
Failed.
Failed.
Will do tomorrow.
See above.

I’m beginning to consider the possibility that it might be the processor and not the motherboard. No way to test it, unfortunately, other than getting that processor on loan from Esteban and hoping against hope that the processor doesn’t die during the […]

It kept beeping at me, officer

So the Gigabyte manual has been pretty useless, since it has no troubleshooting section whatsoever. Thank Azathoth for Google, however, since I was able to find this great list of AMI BIOS beep codes.
Lacking - as I currently am - a response from Gigabyte, I’ve decided on the following course of action:

Start switching around […]

Just like that, it dies

Hmpf.
Harrumpf.
Mumble grumble malditos mojarra.
It seems that my motherboard, a GA-7ZXR, has croaked. It refused to boot, beeping first once and then twice before going dead, dead, dead. It doesn pay any attention to the Power button on the case, doesn’t even attempt to display anything on the screen. Motherboard? Processor? Anyone’s […]