On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Kristoffer Walker <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > Of course there could be a multitude of problems preventing this > machine from ever starting, but I was wondering if the motherboard > needs to be grounded to the case in order to work? Anybody know? And > if so, I wonder how I would do that? > "Needs to be" - no. "Supposed to be" - yes. But it should not have any impact in this case. When I fiddle with motherboards, after hitting my head against the wall a few times trying to jump to "working", I then fall back to the beginning. At the start I remove any memory, hard drives, floppy drives, other drives, etc so it is just a bare motherboard. Then try turning it on. If fans don't spin up, try replacing the motherboard battery. If you don't get some sort of beep code, check to make sure there is a speaker on the motherboard. Google the motherboard model and part number to find the manual for it, there should be a description of "Beep codes" the motherboard will emit for different problems. I've had bad memory completely prevent the pc from even trying to boot. Once I get it turning on, I then add one item at a time till either complete success, or a failure, so I know what failed. Of course, this is assuming that the tradeoff in my time vs just buying a new item is worth the cost.
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