[GH85Carrera]

I had the great fun of going to my MIL's house for tech support of her computer. She turned it on one day, and had no display at all. No BOIS, nothing. It worked one day, not the next. Actually she only turns it on once per week.

I was hoping I could just add a video card, and get a display. So I hauled it home. After a few hours of time with on line tech support and reading the manual, it is official, dead motherboard. Crap.

I built the system 5 years ago. The MB then was just $187.99. I did not expect to see them available still. They no longer make that model, but some people evidently bough the surplus, or had them somehow. Now the price is $1,800 to $3,700 for the same one. I guess their storage facility is in downtown NYC or maybe Tokyo. Ain't no way I will pay that.

So the search for a compatible MB is on. I just want to swap the MB out, and keep the same CPU, hard drives and the rest of the stuff. I have two hard drives that are mirrored, using the built in Intel RAID controller.

This is gonna be fun!

So if any of you have a extra ASUS Z97 Pro series motherboard on the shelf, let me know I will pay $$190 for it.