My motherboard crashed! I have a question about my PCI cards...

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mercury3164

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Bear in mind my knowledge of computers is limited, hopefully someone on here can help me out. So I had a pro come to check out my computer last week and he said it wasn't booting because it was a motherboard issue. So I had to get a new computer. But then I realized I have a belkin firewire port and M-Audio Delta sound PCI cards. My question is can I simply transfer over these cards to my new computer, or are they now ruined because they were inserted into the motherboard that broke? I have taken them out of the old cpu but don't want to put them into my new one until i'm certain it's okay to do that. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
 
Well depending on what killed your motherboard depends on how your cards will be. For example, if you had a huge power surge (unlikey) then it may have fried them too. However if it was simply a failing capacitor on the motherboard then your cards will be absolutely fine. My guess is, your cards are absolutely fine. Plug them in, test them out and if they don't work they'll hardly do any damage to your new computer, I wouldn't have thought.

Rove.
 
RoveWolf said:
Well depending on what killed your motherboard depends on how your cards will be. For example, if you had a huge power surge (unlikey) then it may have fried them too. However if it was simply a failing capacitor on the motherboard then your cards will be absolutely fine. My guess is, your cards are absolutely fine. Plug them in, test them out and if they don't work they'll hardly do any damage to your new computer, I wouldn't have thought.

Rove.
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Great thanks for the info...any way to test the cards status without putting em in a comp? Could a computer service/repair shop provide this service?
 
Oh most probably. A computer repair shop should have no problems sticking the PCI cards into a pre-built machine that they have to test and see if they work. Just drop by and say something along the lines of 'a friend of mine gave me these and I was wondering if you could test them as you currently have no computer to test them in'. I don't see why they would turn you down.

Rove.
 
RoveWolf said:
Oh most probably. A computer repair shop should have no problems sticking the PCI cards into a pre-built machine that they have to test and see if they work. Just drop by and say something along the lines of 'a friend of mine gave me these and I was wondering if you could test them as you currently have no computer to test them in'. I don't see why they would turn you down.

Rove.
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Awesome! Thanks a lot
 
Bare in mind it does depend on the computer shop though. If worst comes to worst you may have to shop around (as in go to one or two other different shops) before finding one that will willingly test them for you. Might be worth a check to see if any of your friends have an old spare machine knocking about that they would let you test them in?

Rove.
 
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