Another mistake that some users make is trying to install incompatible or low-quality components on a motherboard. Before assembling a PC, it is essential that you double-check whether all the parts are compatible.
There are a plethora of websites that allow you to check for compatibility issues. Also, ensure that you buy good quality parts for your motherboard. If you're planning to build an expensive computer, don't cheap out on components such as high-quality RAM or a good PSU.
As mentioned earlier, heat is the enemy of computer components. Keep this in mind when buying parts such as graphics cards. Some graphics cards have a higher affinity for overheating due to fan design and other factors.
Avoid these if you can. Motherboards are easy to damage during installation due to careless handling. If you assemble your own computer, make sure you have an anti-static wristband and an anti-static mat at hand.
Always keep your motherboard on an anti-static mat when handling it. A single static shock can cause irreversible damage to your motherboard. Another important thing to keep in mind is to avoid touching the circuitry on the motherboard.
Whenever you're lifting it, hold it using the edges. Furthermore, during installation, screw the motherboard by applying equal pressure on all corners, i. A damaged motherboard isn't as simple to diagnose as other parts of a computer. Generally speaking, it's apparent when your computer has a hardware error, like not booting up. A fully customize design and built supercomputer is going to be much more expensive. EDIT: another bad thing about esd is it can damage a component where it will deteriorate over time, it may work fine now, but 6 months down the road it can suddenly pop itself.
Not so. That was intended for a post someplace else entirely. Even 20V V is more then enough to damage some components. I'm not talking about frying them with heat or current either, there are components that can be damages simply by having voltage applied in the wrong direction or even is simply to high.
This will occur even if no current flows at all. IRQ level. Go read up on ring levels and all the other nasty shit that you have to know to write drivers for the NT kernel, and then you'll understand this whole thing. I'm not DriverGuru, so I can't give you a good summary You'll see small screw-like objects, called standoffs, under the motherboard.
These keep the motherboard from touching the case. You can collect these after setting the motherboard down. Lay the motherboard down flat on an anti-static mat.
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What's new. New posts New profile posts Latest activity. Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts Billboard Trophies. If I damaged my computer through static, what would be some symptoms? Forums Hardware Systems. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. Nov 29, 32 0 18, 1. Hi there, first time builder here, and after 20 or so hours I managed to get my PC together I know; it was my first time, and I took it VERY slow, carefully triple checking where I plugged in everything.
Unfortunately, my computer does not make any beep noises at all, i. The fans however, turn on, as well as the hard drive, and the chassis LEDs. I am going to go through some steps to troubleshoot this unfortunate situation, but I would like to know what symptoms would be expected from any damage caused by static, and if that in fact is the reason why I'm not getting my motherboard to POST. Here is what I did that is making me worry about possibly causing static damage: After one initial slip-up where I placed the motherboard which rested atop its foam pad on the carpet as I read its manual, and then upon reading in the manual the advice about carpets, quickly placed it back in its anti-static bag and moved to a glass table in a room with wood floors to continue working on it.
I put the fan, CPU, and GPU in the motherboard while working on a glass table, and put the motherboard back in the chassis on a granite table. I then moved my build back to my room which has carpets , and thought that it would be fine so long as I wore cotton which I did and grounded myself by touching the chassis. Unfortunately, only recently did I find out that the chassis actually had to be plugged in but not turned on in order to ground static electricity, and thus was plugging in all the components into the motherboard while not actually grounding myself properly.
Also, as a suggestion for this site, I think it would be beneficial to sticky a thread in these forums that, in the first post, specifically talks about static and how to avoid it. Some people find it useful to use a Anti-static wrist band but I leave that to the individual, as I don't find them necessary, as long as you continue to touch the metal of your case.
Now, I'm not trying to harp on the guide, as it was very useful to me in getting everything together, but I had no idea about the need to plug in the PSU in order to ground myself through the chassis while reading it, and as this is a major site for computer information, it would be extremely beneficial to inform future builders of this. Now, I get that a lot of people view grounding static electricity as common sense, but for a new builder whose only resources are manuals, the internet, and what other people tell them, it isn't all that clear.
After my initial slip-up, I thought I was doing the right thing by not plugging in my chassis when I grounded myself, as I figured that having the potential for even bit of power to run through while I was building my PC would be catastrophic.
Unfortunately, it might have been catastrophic to NOT do that, and I only wish that this would have been clearer to me. Anyways, I am going to go through some steps to troubleshoot this unfortunate situation, but would like to better understand what I'm dealing with here, and if in fact this problem was caused by my own stupidity, i. Thank you to any who respond. Sincerely, Nicholas.
Mar 12, 14, 1 51, 1, The thing with static electricity is that you can hear it and most times feel it so if you accidently touched the MB or case then you would hear a short discharge and feel a small short mild jolt and it sounds sort of like a snap.
You would know it if it happened so if you did not experience any of that then it's a good chance that you didn't have a static dicharge and your problem is something else. When I hear people say that the fans turn on and nothing happens I uaually tell them to check all thier connectors especially the cpu power connector located near the cpu socket also check the ram sticks making sure they are seated all the way and the same with the video card.
Some motherboards have led's on the board that tell at what point the boot proccess is at. What MB do you have? Oct 18, 0 19, Vukodlak Distinguished.
Oct 9, 69 0 18, 4. Try what was suggested by aaab, and if everything works then try adding the memory sticks one by one. AFAIK that's not always true I'm sure that you can have a static discharge that's low enough that you don't hear or feel it and yet it still damages your equipment.
Try unplug everything except the parts you need.
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