Would this fry a motherboard??

[Skinner2]

I have an Abit VA6 mobo which seems to be having some technical issues. A guy I know had a look at it and came to the conclusion that the motherboard is fried due to a CMOS jumper being in the wrong position. The jumper he is referring to can be set two positions 1.) to either reset the CMOS and 2.) for normal use. He said that because the jumper was left in the 'reset' position it was constantly sending a charge through the CMOS which eventually fried something or other. Can anybody confirm if this jumper would fry some components or not? I don't even get the beep from the motherboard anymore when I try to boot up .... Thanks for your help.

 

[Helznicht]

Sounds wierd to me.

How could you even use it with the jumper set to reset?

Its obviously busted, but I dont think this would cause it...

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I don't like the sound of that either. Having that jumper set to reset should not have allowed you to fry your board. There shouldn't be much current flowing through there anyway. Why would the mobo care if you wanted to reset your CMOS all the time. Any way, are you sure it's the motherboard (checked out CPU and Power Supply)?

 

[odog]

you wouldn't have been able to post let alone, boot into an OS with the jumper in the short position.

he's smoking crack...

 

[Skinner2]

The power supply definitely works because I'm using it now in another system, and we tried putting a different processor (that works) into the, allegedly fried, mobo and that didn't work either. So that led us to believe that the problem was with the motherboard (and possibly the original processor too, since we didn't test it in a different motherboard). Does all that make sense??

 

[Jeff7]

Some pre-socket A era motherboards would let you power up the system with the CMOS reset jumper in the reset position, but I'd never had it actually damage the system. My 8KTA3 won't even power on wih the jumper in the reset position.

 

[dkozloski]

Lately I have come across motherboards that were shipped with the CMOS jumper in the shorting position and had to be changed to get them to function at all. A common mistake is for someone to put the jumper in the shorting position without completely removing power(unplugging)first. This doesn't hurt anything either except that CMOS is not cleared as expected.