Oh dear, please help?

im guessing youd know if it was shorting by checking if the plate is contacting with anything, id guess that its the same principal of having spacers to keep your motherboard from coming in contact with the case and shorting out
 
I have come to the conclusion my motherboard is broken, as I tested my spare MB and that works fine, so I tested my current one with a different heat sink and it still didn't work. Which is annoying as I only got it in January. Reckon the warranty will cover this? Only one way to find out I guess!
 
Some people are just unlucky ......... if it were me and this is no slur on your capabilities but I'd be scared of touching my pc ever again ........ you seem to break everything you touch :)
 
mollymoo said:
Some people are just unlucky ......... if it were me and this is no slur on your capabilities but I'd be scared of touching my pc ever again ........ you seem to break everything you touch :)
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It certainly seemed that way the other day! (Saying that, both my hard drives which broke were broken by someone else!)

Must have upset someone above me thinks. :p

....

Anyway a little update: spoke to the company I bought it from, they are sending out a courier tommorrow to pick it up and are issueing a replacement. Yay.
 
widdyst said:
Doesnt leaving the cmos jumper on clear and then switching on the power fry your bios chip ?
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No...

Wrayvon - It does indeed sound like your cheap PSU blew and took the motherboard with it. Strange how it worked with your friends PSU though - perhaps it didn't annihilate it completely. Here's hoping the company find it to be faulty.

*adds one to his "number of reasons not to buy a cheap PSU" tally*
 
wrayvon said:
I have come to the conclusion my motherboard is broken, as I tested my spare MB and that works fine, so I tested my current one with a different heat sink and it still didn't work. Which is annoying as I only got it in January. Reckon the warranty will cover this? Only one way to find out I guess!
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Did you follow the clear cmos procedure exactly from the manual ?

To erase the RTC RAM:
1. Turn OFF the computer and unplug the power cord.
2. Move the jumper cap from pins 1-2 (default) to pins 2-3. Keep the cap on
pins 2-3 for about 5~10 seconds, then move the cap back to pins 1-2.
3. Plug the power cord and turn ON the computer.
4. Hold down the <Del> key during the boot process and enter BIOS setup to
re-enter data
 
widdyst said:
Did you follow the clear cmos procedure exactly from the manual ?

To erase the RTC RAM:
1. Turn OFF the computer and unplug the power cord.
2. Move the jumper cap from pins 1-2 (default) to pins 2-3. Keep the cap on
pins 2-3 for about 5~10 seconds, then move the cap back to pins 1-2.
3. Plug the power cord and turn ON the computer.
4. Hold down the <Del> key during the boot process and enter BIOS setup to
re-enter data
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I certainly did.
 
Well the man on the phone didn't sound very surprised, so I'm guessing a fair few motherboards die under warranty. He was nice and helpful though :)
 
Well here comes the latest update, apparently the motherboard is fine as they have tested it, (and updated my bios apparently). This is bad news as it most likely means its my CPU then I'm guessing?

Going to persuade my brother to let me test it in his system now! It can only be ram or CPU now I assume (Please correct me if I am wrong)

Anyone got a quad core cpu going? :p
 
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