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So i ruined my motherboard today

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Rick James

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I took off the backplate for my waterblock and went back to air and totally fucked up my motherboard. All i get when i try to boot it is a bunch of fast beeps from the speaker. Any idea's before i trash it?
 
Ideas would depend on what went wrong. Shut off AC, pull the battery for 10 minutes and use the clear CMOS jumper. Leave it with only 1 memory module, video card, CPU, heatsink/fan till it posts. Is it possible you got it wet and it only needs to dry out more? Check the battery voltage too, some boards won't POST with a dead battery and having AC off for a period would reveal a drained battery.

Does your board have dual bios or a socketed EEPROM? If the latter, how about hotflashing the right bios in another board or buying a pre-flashed chip? Waste of money if it doesn't work, but unless you flexed the board too much to crack it, or got it wet then powered it, I'd suspect a scrambled bios as much as anything else.
 
Originally posted by: Rick James
I took off the backplate for my waterblock and went back to air and totally fucked up my motherboard. All i get when i try to boot it is a bunch of fast beeps from the speaker. Any idea's before i trash it?
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how did you mess up the board? did you hook up the CPU fan, 8pin power, etc? it might be your cpu.
 
I bent two of the pins on the back of the mobo. I tried everything but no dice. Fucking pissed me off to high heaven. 200 dollar motherboard 2 days past the return date ruined
 
put your backplate back on and set your system up to how it was BEFORE you farked it up. If it still doesn't work, your assumptions are probably correct.
 
Originally posted by: mindless1
Ideas would depend on what went wrong. Shut off AC, pull the battery for 10 minutes and use the clear CMOS jumper. Leave it with only 1 memory module, video card, CPU, heatsink/fan till it posts. Is it possible you got it wet and it only needs to dry out more? Check the battery voltage too, some boards won't POST with a dead battery and having AC off for a period would reveal a drained battery.

Does your board have dual bios or a socketed EEPROM? If the latter, how about hotflashing the right bios in another board or buying a pre-flashed chip? Waste of money if it doesn't work, but unless you flexed the board too much to crack it, or got it wet then powered it, I'd suspect a scrambled bios as much as anything else.
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I would go with what mindless suggests here. Don't assume the mobo is bad unless you've troubleshot it and are sure it can not be revived.
 
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