16 GB's of DDR4 RAM and we should be good to start building...
 

Do method #1 listed here.

Sushihunter
I've also found out that there is a local company that does data recovery and HD fixes. One of the things they do is control board pc swaps. I'm thinking that might be where I'm headed.
https://www.hdd-parts.com/

Hope it works out for you. 

Here's a printout from HDDScan 3.3:
 
 

Update: November 2, 2017
 
Got'em! 
 
 

And so, it begins...
 
 

Update: November 3, 2017


I installed the CPU, Cooler, and RAM onto the Motherboard, and now have it installed into the case.


I thought I was working with a Master Cooler case - turns out it's an Antec Design case. Now, I'm going to have to check my collection of old cases to see where the Cooler Master case got to...


I took an old WD Blue 500 GB Hard Drive, formatted it, and ran diagnostics on it. Checks out good. I've now got that installed in the case.


I used my NCIX Gift Cards to buy a new WD Blue 1 TB drive. I've installed it into the case, but haven't hooked it up - I'll do that once I get the system up and running.


I have the Windows 10 files on a USB flash drive - hopefully I can figure out the installation - never done W10 before.


As luck would have it, the Parallel Printer Port cable showed up from China today, so I installed that. It'll be nice to have an LPT port again so I can hook up my laser printer.


I think, all I have to do is connect Mouse, Keyboard, and Monitor to fire this thing up and install the System.


As promised, a couple of photos of the build in progress:

Update: November 5, 2017 - 1:30 AM PDT  (If I time this right, I can post this an hour before I wrote it...)
 
Well, I've got all the bits & pieces installed, and I've powered it up. No smoke detected! 
 
I've played around in the BIOS, setting things up.  (This is going to have a learning curve!). 
 
Who writes these damn Motherboard Manuals anyway?  Sure would be nice if there was an explanation for various features:
 
"Secure Boot - Allows you to enable or disable Secure Boot and configure related settings"
 
I really don't need the manual to tell me that - what I need the manual to tell me is WTH does it do when I enable it!
 
 
Got XMP turned on and RAM running at 3200.
 
Ran MemTest 86 for a few hours - no errors. - Really like the latest edition of MemTest86!
 
Installed Windows 10 Pro - 64 Bit today. - THIS is going to take getting used to after many years of Windows XP & 7.
 
Motherboard came with F6 BIOS - I successfully flashed it to F7
 
Discovered that the Motherboard has a built-in amber LED - I don't recall seeing anything about this in the product web page. Nice little bonus.
 
To install the MB, I installed the CPU, Cooler & Fan, and the RAM onto the MB before installing it into the case - Nowhere does it say I should have done the same for the SATA cables for the drives!
Whoever thought it was a good idea to mount the SATA ports sideways, instead of facing up, should be shot... drawn and quartered, and shot again for good measure! Plugging the SATA cables into the MB ports took enough time that I seriously considered removing the MB from the case! Trying to get the cables seated in the ports by feel is not my idea of fun. At least the Hard Drive was easy to remove and get out of the way to provide a little more room for my chubby fingers.
 
The Antec case is old enough that it doesn't have any USB 3.0 ports on the front of the case - I'll have to see if I can find one that will fit the 3.5" opening. However, there are some on the MB, so I will be able to plug my MediaSonic NAS box into the back of the case instead of having it hanging out of the front. That will be a nice upgrade.
 
More later...
 
 

Sajin
Secure boot overview.

Interesting... Thanks for the link!
 
Now I just need to dig out all my software installation disks - I wonder how many will choke on W10-64?
 
 

maxfly
so what happened with the bad hdd?
 rig looks good and that memory is samsung b die so it should oc nicely. youve got that nice shiny new mb and cpu, now show it off! fork out some of that bitcoin loot on a https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7TD5NV7228 and go to town!

Thanks for the comment!
 
The 2TB Seagate Pipeline drive has been removed from the system for now. I'm not going to format it. I'm planning on checking with the HD recovery guys out in White Rock as soon as I have time, to see if they can do anything without costing a fortune. I do have many of the movies backed up to a 1TB Pipeline drive that is connected to my WDTV Media Player, but not all. I think I had about 120 full length HD movies at 1080p and 5.1 audio. The best are backed up on the 1TB, but many were on the 2TB waiting for room to be transferred to the 1TB for watching. And that does not include all the seasons of TV shows.
 
I'm pretty sure that the files can be recovered. As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the data on the drive. I think it may be the control board. If this proves to be the case, then it is about a $50 - $70 fix to change boards and get it running again + another HD to back everything up on...
 
So far, I'm really happy with the hardware I have for the new computer build. It runs good, and as a bonus, looks good.
 
Only problem to date is the copy of Windows 10 I have. I wasn't able to activate it. So now, I'm looking to buy a new copy. Trying to figure out if OEM is good enough, or if I should get the more expensive Retail version. I understand that I can freely use my Win10 without activating, but that it is crippled, now allowing certain customization.
 
I really like the Anidees AI-CRYSTAL-CUBE-LITE Case that you linked to. My only problem with it is that it only has either 1, or possibly 0 5.25" drive bays. I need at least 4, preferably 6.
 
I have a Blueray burner, a DVD burner, USB/Firewire Port Panel, and a HD Docking Port. I may even install a second Blueray burner if there is room.
 
Here's a couple of cases I've been looking at:
 
Cooler Master Trooper - Full Tower Gaming Computer Case
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/...amp;colid=ZWGU7WFDG7IG
 
Cooler Master Storm Stryker - Gaming Full Tower Computer Case
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/...amp;colid=ZWGU7WFDG7IG
 
I'm still trying to figure out the difference between these two - looks like one may not have a window, but hard to tell because there is no photo of the side where a window would be placed.
 
Bitcoin hit an all-time-high yesterday... then promptly dropped about $800 US$     Since then, it's held pretty solid within about a $20 band.
 
I lost about $50 in value, but can't really complain - I'm still $233 ahead of the game as of a few minutes ago - almost double my investment, plus I cashed out $100 last week, so $333 ahead.
 
Two weeks until next pension cheque, so I'll hang onto the Bitcoin for now, depending on what the market does.
 
 
 

Update: December 1, 2017
 
After much futzing around, I finally got Windows 10 Home Retail 64 loaded and working.
 
Maybe I don't understand the inner workings of operating systems, but after all these years, is it really too difficult to make one that doesn't require a working computer to format and prepare a hard drive to accept a new OS?
 
As I wanted to do a clean install, I wanted to format the HD to clean the Win10 Pro off of it. For some reason, I couldn't do this. I had to remove the HD from the computer and install it into my NAS Box to format it. Then after placing it back in the new computer, I had to convert the drive to GPT - which it refused to do. Back into the NAS Box and download a couple of YouTube videos to find out how to do the conversion.
 
I also ran SeaTools and another HD checking app on the HD and everything looks good.
 
After about four attempts, I now have the OS installed and the computer up and running. I even loaded up some Bitcoin mining software to try out. I don't have a GPU installed so it is running off of the CPU instead. After about 6 hours, I made a whole nickel! (5 cents).
 
I updated the OS online. The HD is not bolted in yet in case I had to go back to the main computer, so has to be done yet. Then hook up the new 1TB WD HD for data.
 
A friend of mine just bought a new 2TB WD My Passport portable HD. I'm going to use that to see if I can recover any of the files off of my failed 2TB Pipeline HD, so I'll install that soon and give it a shot before installing all my programs. I still need to dig all the disks out of storage anyway.
 
I'm not quite ready to set it up on the desk yet - I still need to install a bunch of programs and set up things like my online banking, email etc.
 
So, things are looking good. Timing seems about right - the old system has been freezing up the last couple of days requiring a Reset to reboot. One time, even that didn't work until done about 4 or 5 times. Strange this is, it started playing music at one point even though there was no video (black screen) and it wouldn't un-freeze until I cut the power.
 
Soon, I'll have to copy and back up all my document files, including photos and videos off of the C drive. I also have the previous System drive full of photos and such that need to be backed up. Then I'll have two Seagate 500GB HD's to format and use. At some point I'll have to post a photo of the box full of dusty HD's that sit at my feet. Years of upgrading and scavenging old computers! There's even a couple of 20GB IDE drives in there. Not sure what I'm going to do with them as there is no IDE port in this new Motherboard. Maybe I'll just have to copy the files to a SATA drive before shutting down the old system, then I can sell the IDE's but checking on Craigslist, I'd be lucky to get $5 or $10 each for them.
 
More later...

Update: December 3, 2017
 
"Dead" Seagate Pipeline 2TB HD
 
Well, this is interesting...
 
Just hooked up my supposedly dead 2TB Pipeline drive that had all the movies & TV seasons on it that suddenly crashed a while back.
 
I plugged it into my new computer and fired it up. During the boot process it gave me a message that it was scanning and repairing the HD. Once fully booted, I clicked on the HD icon, and there it was - everything, just as it was before it died!
 
I quickly plugged in the 2TB WD My Passport drive and it is now copying over the New Movie directory - should take 3 hours. After that, I'll start moving over other directories one by one.
 
Before moving it into the new computer, I plugged it back into my NAS Box, and it was just as dead there as it has been since the failure. Five minutes later, it's working just fine in the new computer with Windows 10 Home. Strange. I didn't even get a chance to scan it with the various HD Utility programs I have. I can only guess that there is something new in W10 that is not there in W7.
 
Assuming that it continues to work long enough to get all the files of of it, and onto the My Passport drive, I'll do some scans and then maybe transfer it back into the NAS Box and see if it still works.
 
More later...
 
Further Update: December 3, 2017
 
Well, I think I got the entire HD copied over to the portable My Passport drive, (I'll have to double-check that I didn't miss any files).
 
Only exceptions were 1 movie: Fate of the Furious, and one TV program who's name I forgot to record - I can live with that!  
 
TV shows alone were some 600GB's, and I think, there were about 180 HD movies plus the movies I've already watched which get moved into a Watched folder.
 
I haven't had time yet to run any diagnostics on the drive, but I'll do that just as soon as I've confirmed everything is safe on the new HD. Then I'll move it back to the NAS Box to see if it will work there. I kind of suspect that it will. The only question then, is: Can it be trusted?
 
 Further Update: December 4, 2017
 
Just uploaded a copy of the SMART info from the Pipeline HD that failed and came back to life.
 
It continues to work in the Windows 10 / Z270 system. All files, (with 2 exceptions) have been copied to the external WD My Passport HD.
Using SeaTools, the short drive test failed at 10%.
Needless to say, I don't trust this drive. Seeing as I can now access the drive, I'm just going to pull it out of the system and hang onto it as is. As soon as I can get another 2TB HD, I'll copy it over.
The My Passport drive belongs to a friend, and will be returned to him.
 
Well, that is one bullet dodged! 
 

Sushihunter
Well, that is one bullet dodged! 

Update: December 20, 2017
 
Well, just switched computers...
 
This last week has been a real pain-in-the-ass.  The "old" 775 computer has been doing strange things.
 
Within a few minutes of booting, (just long enough to boot and load up a few web pages) the video would go black (no video signal), and the HD light would come on. Only way to get out was to reset or power cycle the computer - usually several times.
 
Who Crashed indicated it was a video crash, but didn't really want to get involved. So, in a fit of frustration, I unplugged all the cables in the back of the computer, and replaced it with the new box.
 
So now I have a computer with only a couple of bookmarks, and no saved passwords for my regular sites. Now, I did save my bookmark file, but for the life of me, I can't seem to find how to import it into the new computer.
 
Interesting tidbit - I run two monitors. One is a 24" Dell LCD, the second one is an older Samsung SyncMaster 750s CRT. I've been wanting to swap out the Samsung for an LCD monitor for a while now because it has turned fuzzy and it is almost impossible to read any fine print on it. I have to drag the window over to the Dell if I need to read anything.
 
At this point, you are probably wondering "Why doesn't the idiot replace the defective monitor?"  Well, I would, but I have a 16.5 year old cat who sleeps on top of it, and if I replaced it with an LCD, he would knock it over trying to jump up on it. (yes, tried this a few years back - had to screw the monitor to the desk to keep him from knocking it down).
 
Anyway... After swapping computers, and I'm now running video off of the built-in video on the Motherboard/CPU instead of off of my EVGA GT620 video card, the CRT is crystal clear!