Chinwag Posts
Me early this morning: Why are there a bunch of weird, crappy little issues going on?
Me after a coffee: Oooooooh right. Shit.
It has been A Day but fortunately I live in the future and can summon curry to my door at short notice.
Who doesn't love a little unscheduled trip to the DC to wrestle with an uncooperative computer?
I put all the original parts back in and it's working exactly as it was, so that's the power supply and GPU confirmed not at fault.
I'm not going as far as putting stuff back into my main PC again but I can easily test the RAM in that, and if I feel really enthusiastic the old CPU should work in the new board too, so I can eventually isolate this to the processor or the motherboard.
Of course, experience tells me that the most likely outcome here is that every component will test ok in isolation and if I then put everything together again it will work perfectly.
Because computers can get fucked.