HELP - fried my motherboard, what next?

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HoyaParanoia

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Hey everybody,

I'm building a PC for the first time, and also a complete and total moron. I fixed my motherboard directly to my case without using standoffs.

The PC started, then after a couple of minutes it died and now will not restart. After I realized what I did, I tried reinstalling the whole system with standoffs under the motherboard, but it didn't help. So I'm fairly certain that I shorted out my board, but do you think anything else is fried? Is there a way to figure that out?

I just had this delivered today, will Newegg take a return on the motherboard? Can I just say it was DOA?

Any advice you could give would be great, thanks.
 
I would try to return it :P
If they won't accept it I think you need to buy another one and see if anything else is dead.
If they do accept it ask them what if it damaged your other components :D
 
I'm suprised you got a few minutes out of it!

I have to admit to doing the same thing when I built my first pc, when I turned it on, it immediately turned itself back off. Luckily no damage was done.

Are you sure that when you put everything back together that you reconnected everything correctly including the pins for the power switch itself?
 
Simon@Linux said:
Are you sure that when you put everything back together that you reconnected everything correctly including the pins for the power switch itself?
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Yeah, I'm fairly certain I put it all back together correctly this time. After putting it together the right way, I turned it on and got a split-second of recognition from the PSU, then nothing. Rechecked cords and whatnot, tried again, nothing.

Time to RMA the motherboard? Anyway to see if I killed my CPU or RAM as well? Would that be normal for this kind of screw-up?
 
do you think Newegg will accept this as a defective item? can I just claim the board was DOA, or will it be obvious that I killed it?
 
Lol, I had something similar. My first build, I put one extra standoff right behind the RAM. Computer turned on for 1 second and then off. I wanted to cry. Couldnt figure it out FOREVER until I decided to re try the whole build, thats when I noticed it. Double check and make sure you didnt do something like this as well. Everytime I started the computer (Like 100 times trying to figure out why its broken) it shut off as soon as the RAM got power.

Anyways, yes, say the board was DOA and you want a replacement. They'll give you an RMA #
 
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Never did that to any of my builds =) But hey, I had an AMD that wouldnt start up, and it was shorting, even witht the standoffs, it stil somehow shorted, so if you got it to start, try loosening some screws, or take the mobo out the reconnect everything on the floor
 
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