Mobo fryed. Next step?

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FiveSeven

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Just so everyone knows I realize I was being VERY careless. So I was looking at my 5 year old computer and playing around with ram and such. I put it in backwards (it only went in halfway and I know it was SOOO CARELESS) and turned it on. Of course it smelled burny and wouldn't work. So I bought new ram and put it in the other bus. Still didn't work so that means the motherboard is fried right? Does that mean everything on it is worthless? Or just the motherboard and ram.
 
It depends you might have been lucky, why don`t you post what your components are and you can get some advice on a suitable new motherboard
 
To be honest all I know is it's a D300a/D400a by Insignia. Yeah it's pretty much ancient. Looking into getting an HP Slimline. Not sure if knowing it's a D300a/D400a will help you but bought it from bestbuy and I don't have it at my home currently.
 
ok well no matter really, your system is pentium 4 cpu most likely socket 478 which is pretty old you will struggle to find a brand new one, most likely if you want to repair you will need to buy a used motherboard
 
building is the way to go, less likely to fail and figuring what failed isn't as hard as people make it out to be if you can access the interwebz we can most likely tell you.
 
I don't actually need a gaming computer. The only game I want to play requires next to nothing. Common Requirements
OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7
DirectX: DirectX 9.0b

Minimum Requirement
CPU: Pentium III 833Mhz
Graphics Card: GeForce3 64MB
RAM: 256MB

Recommended Requirement
CPU: Pentium III 1.2Ghz
Graphics Card: GeForce4 128MB
RAM: 512MB
I'm not sure why my laptop has troubles with it right now. With only 40% of the 3gb memory taken up and 7% cpu usage it lags and overheats. So I'm pretty sure any computer could run it. Not sure what my problem is atm.......
 
k, i'll throw you something together that'll be plenty powerfull enough to play that. it'll help me to know are you in the states or uk or canada or austalia or where, different countries mean different sites.
 
FiveSeven said:
Just so everyone knows I realize I was being VERY careless. So I was looking at my 5 year old computer and playing around with ram and such. I put it in backwards (it only went in halfway and I know it was SOOO CARELESS) and turned it on. Of course it smelled burny and wouldn't work. So I bought new ram and put it in the other bus. Still didn't work so that means the motherboard is fried right? Does that mean everything on it is worthless? Or just the motherboard and ram.
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I put in a RAM chip into an old computer mobo once while running, it smoked, and smelled burnt, and died with no life signs. The mobo was useless, but I don't think it ruined the external parts [like the PCI modem that was attached, CD, and etc], but you'd probably want to test the things like that attached to the mobo if you are going to salvage them for a new computer.
 
My computer still turned on and everything, could hear the fans working. just that nothing would show up on the display. Oh well I already recycled it. probably shouldn't have.
 
FiveSeven said:
My computer still turned on and everything, could hear the fans working. just that nothing would show up on the display. Oh well I already recycled it. probably shouldn't have.
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Maybe the CPU fried, and it had no way of beeping an error code? Or maybe your video card was dead... Heh, if you've already tossed it, I guess it doesn't matter anymore. ;)
 
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