Problem... Any advice?

[DavidsAwesome]

I think I broke a motherboard, but I'm not sure.


I was switching power supplies on my dad's computer, and the connection between the power supply and the motherboard wasn't coming out. I was trying to be gentle, but I had to use force with it. Since it's on the end, and the motherboard is smaller than the case is designed for, the last 2" or so of the motherboard isn't supported by the case, and isn't screwed in on the ends.... so there was some flexibility.

Well, I plugged in the newer power supply, and tried to boot it, and it wouldn't even load BIOS. The monitor stopped saying "check signal cable" so I assume it was giving a signal, but BIOS didn't load, BIOS didn't beep....

The Hard drive was spinning, the ram is well seated, the processor is well seated...

Worked fine when I switched the motherboard with my own, so it's either the motherboard or the processor right? But if it were the processor, wouldn't it have loaded BIOS and beeped to indicate a processor error?

Now for the real problem... The place I bought the motherboard from looks like it might close, the place has close to nothing in stock, NO motherboards at all... and it's the only computer supply place that's even relatively close to me. I'd have to buy a new one online... and I despise the internet for purchases.

[Dynash]

Sounds like the motherboards gone to me.

[SC-Jon]

Yeah no doubt, your motherboards dead. When it doesn't boot to BIOS, it signifies that that something broke, which, breaking is really the only common case I know of to cause a MB to die, other than shock, or power surge.

If it was the processor, it would still boot to BIOS. Is there any circuit cities, or CompUSA's around you? They sell fairly decent..probably get a ASUS or Gigabyte from a compUSA. If not, then I'd say newegg, or tigerdirect. I've had no issues with online sales from them.

[DavidsAwesome]

the circuit city near me doesn't carry motherboards, and the best buy doesn't either.

The nearest CompUSA, now that they closed them all down... is like 3 hours away. I used to have 3 within an hours drive.

I had a Gigabyte in it before, I'll probably end up getting that again. Hopefully it won't be too much trouble getting it.


Thanks guys, I appreciate the input. I figured it was the motherboard, but its good to have people behind you before you throw money down the drain.