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06-28-2009, 12:54 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Feb 2008
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 |  How Bad Is this?! Lol, My friend made a New Build... and apparently... I saw a large package of Nuts & nails remaining... hes like "I dunno what to do with those" WELL... The "those" were supposed to be nuts that seperates the Mobo and the case... So basically he nailed the mobo onto the case... how bad is this? |
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06-28-2009, 01:08 AM
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| Turtle is Back Super Moderator  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Rochester, NY
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  | Re: How Bad Is this?! just don't turn it on. you'll end up shorting the motherboard. |
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06-28-2009, 01:41 AM
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| NetworkEngineer  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bottineau, ND
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 | Re: How Bad Is this?! Depends on the case and if the case's tray has stamped motherboard standoffs. You will short out the motherboard if it's touching the tray directly. Chances are the computer will power on and quickly power off and refuse to start from there. All you need to do is remove the motherboard, put the standoffs in the case, and screw the motherboard back in place. |
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06-28-2009, 05:38 PM
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| I'm new, don't flame me  Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UAE
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06-28-2009, 05:41 PM
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| KuCoUyF  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: OC
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| Re: How Bad Is this?! not as bad as that.... |
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06-28-2009, 09:32 PM
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| NetworkEngineer Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bottineau, ND
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| Re: How Bad Is this?! Oh snap, looks like house of tutors got haxxed. |
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06-28-2009, 09:40 PM
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| /v|EGADET|-\ Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Halifax, NS CA
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| Re: How Bad Is this?! Are you saying houseoftutors was originally unaffiliated with the Dubai Red Light District (The sex had better be good if it can get you STONED)? And they just hacked it and added their own page to the root directory, with spam pointing to it? That is AWFUL. But yeah I did the same thing the first time I put my board in. It seems like 50% of first-time builders make this mistake. It's the most common mistake and case manufacturers, mobo manufacturers should take more steps to inform us of the procedure. My mobo doesn't work 100%, and while a lot of people on vip.asus.com complain about the same problems, maybe in the first place we are just the minority of those shorting out the board? Maybe these "problem areas" we encounter are just the parts which can get shorted before you turn it on. There is a battery in there, you know. The most sensitive components aren't installed yet, like the CPU, which could be easily damaged by a small battery... maybe the next best candidates for damage on a mobo are the parts we first-timers are all complaining about? Could be why the BIOS update for the part of my board that never worked still doesn't work, yet the sensitive drop-in components are fine. It's probably just going to be my luck from here on in. Damn, I may be onto something. Gotta make the public aware of standoffs! :-P Last edited by Deth.Addict; 06-28-2009 at 09:47 PM. |
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06-29-2009, 01:27 AM
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| Member Join Date: Feb 2008
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| Re: How Bad Is this?! ahahaahaha And Now hes telling me his pc shuts down every 2mins or so LOL.... Funny how the board is still ALIVE?! |
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06-29-2009, 10:46 AM
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| /v|EGADET|-\ Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Halifax, NS CA
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| Re: How Bad Is this?! You never indicated you gave your friend our advice... is his board still nailed to the case? He should still try to use it properly in case an act of God combined with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle resulted in the creation of a new law for electrical properties, and... no you're ****ed. Or maybe I just want to rip on you and Heisenberg. Tell us if he tries to fix it, and how, if he has any luck we'll put it to work for him. :-P |
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06-29-2009, 12:07 PM
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| Quid pro quo.  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Indiana
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| Re: How Bad Is this?! Most motherboards have a rather large area around the mounting hole where it is perfectly OK for other conductive materials to touch them. If the motherboard tray has raised standoffs to begin with, he's probably fine. You say his computer is shutting down every two minutes - to me this sounds like a CPU/Memory problem, or possibly a power supply issue (bad power, not enough power, etc). What is the name/brand/wattage of his PSU? How many sticks of memory does he have? Tell him to cycle each individual stick of memory through the first DIMM slot on the motherboard. Let the computer run for about 10-15 minutes to be extra sure - if it hasn't shut down by that point, he probably has a bad stick of memory. If it is still shutting down, try cycling each stick of memory through the remaining 3 DIMM slots. If this fixes the problem, you've got a bad DIMM slot on the motherboard. Just don't use that slot and you'll be fine, but be aware, at least in my experience, that sort of problem tends to spread. Pretty soon the other DIMM slots will go bad. |
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