- Sep 22, 2008
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Good evening,
I've recently opened up one of my old desktops with an Abit-NF7 motherboard in it in order to replace the motherboard and put a new CPU in it. The last time I've booted the machine successfully was in June of 2008 prior to taking it on the road with me on a couple moving trips. Before replacing the motherboard I decided I better boot it up and make some backups in case I need to format after replacement. To my surprise, the machine did not boot up. I powered it up as normal, but the machine did not produce a POST beep or sync up with the monitor. I concluded it was a shorting issue after I took out all the RAM and the machine still did not make a beeping noise on boot. Following this I took the motherboard out of the case, put it on a piece of cardboard and hooked it up with 1 stick of RAM. The machine booted as usual.
I've never had an issue where the motherboard has shorted out with the case previously, so I am unsure how to troubleshoot/fix this issue. I am reluctant to make my backups while my motherboard is on a piece of cardboard because I am afraid the same issue might persist once I put in the new motherboard. I am aware that most new motherboards have a fraction of their mounting holes specifically contacting with the case in some way for grounding purposes (in Gigabyte's case I believe these holes are the ones located opposite the side with the input panel). I don't know if this Abit board has something similar. Even so, the motherboard is mounted in the case via 10 pegs, only 2 of which are brass and 8 are plastic. The brass pegs are both located closer to the back input panel.
Here are a couple mirrors for the manual if anyone cares to take a look:
http://www.uabit.com/downloads/dow [...] series.pdf
http://www.fragrgt.com/nf7_series.pdf
Thanks.
I've recently opened up one of my old desktops with an Abit-NF7 motherboard in it in order to replace the motherboard and put a new CPU in it. The last time I've booted the machine successfully was in June of 2008 prior to taking it on the road with me on a couple moving trips. Before replacing the motherboard I decided I better boot it up and make some backups in case I need to format after replacement. To my surprise, the machine did not boot up. I powered it up as normal, but the machine did not produce a POST beep or sync up with the monitor. I concluded it was a shorting issue after I took out all the RAM and the machine still did not make a beeping noise on boot. Following this I took the motherboard out of the case, put it on a piece of cardboard and hooked it up with 1 stick of RAM. The machine booted as usual.
I've never had an issue where the motherboard has shorted out with the case previously, so I am unsure how to troubleshoot/fix this issue. I am reluctant to make my backups while my motherboard is on a piece of cardboard because I am afraid the same issue might persist once I put in the new motherboard. I am aware that most new motherboards have a fraction of their mounting holes specifically contacting with the case in some way for grounding purposes (in Gigabyte's case I believe these holes are the ones located opposite the side with the input panel). I don't know if this Abit board has something similar. Even so, the motherboard is mounted in the case via 10 pegs, only 2 of which are brass and 8 are plastic. The brass pegs are both located closer to the back input panel.
Here are a couple mirrors for the manual if anyone cares to take a look:
http://www.uabit.com/downloads/dow [...] series.pdf
http://www.fragrgt.com/nf7_series.pdf
Thanks.
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