Wow, motherboard fries while changing cases?

[MikeKess]

Well i just got a new case, and I put my computer into the new case, everything together start it up, and the fans are spinning but the comp doesnt boot up. Originally i thought maybe i didnt have a big enuff power supply for my new case (3 extra fans, another harddrive), but soon realized that wasnt the problem. Out of ideas i took it to a comp. shop, to find out the motherboard blew. Remember b4 i changed cases my comp worked PERFECT. well, i had to buy a new mobo n stuff, this really sux, what cud cuz the mobo to go bad just changing cases?

 

[CheesePoofs]

If the fans are spinning, your motherboard can't be completely dead. In order for the powersupply to start supplying power to the components (including the fans) the motherboard needs to send a signal to the powersupply to start powering components.

How did they know the mobo had blown? Was it just a guess or did something about the motherboard tell them?

 

[Erssa]

You propably gave it a static shock and fried some circuits when you switched cases.

 

[Appledrop]

might have shorted the motherboard against case.. did you properly use the raisers? (forgot proper name... they are little brass screw things that ensure your motherboard is above your case and not touching it)

 

[phisrow]

Standoffs. Not installing those in the right places, or too many of them, can ground exciting parts of the motherboard that very, very much resent being grounded.

 

[thanatos355]

how can you use too many standoffs? you been drilling holes in your mobos again?

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: phisrow
Standoffs. Not installing those in the right places, or too many of them, can ground exciting parts of the motherboard that very, very much resent being grounded.

 

[mechBgon]

Some mobos use more than others up the rear edge. Compare a Shuttle AN35N Ultra to an Asus A7N8X, for example; the Shuttle uses four, the Asus uses three.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Sometimes, stuff just doesn't want to work in the case. Try re-installing the mobo.

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Sometimes, stuff just doesn't want to work in the case. Try re-installing the mobo.

Or try it out of the case.

 

[Duckzilla]

Originally posted by: thanatos355
how can you use too many standoffs? you been drilling holes in your mobos again?

Reminds me of a computer I had to re-install the OS on. A local "professional" assembled the computer and used a standoff with no matching hole in the motherboard. Fried the parallel port, but the board worked perfectly fine otherwise. Was a D815EEA2 by Intel.