Last Christmas I had a power spike and lost a MoBo, a CPU, a sound system and the GPU.
$2000 dollars later [and a little swearing] and it was all up and running again...
New [SH] Mobo ....new CPU....and upgraded to RTX 3070 card. ...then treated myself to a fancier sound system.
Yesterday morning...about 8.00 AM half of Victoria went dark thanks to severe storms.
Power was restored about 11.30 PM by which time we were asleep...
This morning apart from resetting all the clocks etc I had the task of rebooting this mother .... and it posted....lights were on...but no-one's home.
One of the first things to do...[after definition-of-insanity redoing things and expecting a different result]....was to swap out the 3070 with the el-cheapo backup $70 card.
Needless to say it booted and lights were on - ie I had a screen.
I figure I'm now in for another $1100 card. The graphics I do would simply choke a 2Gb GT710 to death...