I may have destroyed my motherboard

[lefty2]

I was making measurements on my motherboard with a metal tape and stupidly forgot to unplug the power. Then it sudden came on and I might have touched the lan connection with the tape. After that, it's only recognising the network card intermittantly. Is it really that easy to bork a motherboard?

 

[Deders]

Try leaving it unplugged with the cmos battery out for half an hour, see if it resets itself.

 

[lefty2]

Yeah, I tried resetting the bios without luck

 

[C1]

Is it really that easy to bork a motherboard?

Yup, you betcha.

As easy as bridging the wrong two energized metal surfaces, even if only instantaneously (eg, there goes a chip).

 

[Deders]

Yeah, I tried resetting the bios without luck

But did you try leaving it unplugged and with the battery out for half an hour to give the components time to discharge fully?

 

[denis280]

But did you try leaving it unplugged and with the batter out for half an hour to give the components time to discharge fully?

+1 and if this don't work.if the rest of the mobo is fine.just buy a network pci card.

 

[Drummerdude]

Just to add my unnecessary 2 cents, I'm gonna say yep, sounds like your "borked" it. As Denis said, buy a pci/pci-e NIC, and problem fixed.

 

[MongGrel]

Yup, you betcha.

As easy as bridging the wrong two energized metal surfaces, even if only instantaneously (eg, there goes a chip).

Yes it is, I did it once when trying to put a NB cooler on a MOBO and the screws were a bit too long years ago, first time I fired it up POOF.

 

[lefty2]

But did you try leaving it unplugged and with the battery out for half an hour to give the components time to discharge fully?

I think that might have done it. After leaving it off overnight it started working again. Thanks for the advice anyways

 

[denis280]

:thumbsup:Great news.and thanks for the info.