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| Thread ID: 134523 | 2013-07-10 20:51:00 | Think my motherboard died, suggestions | dugimodo (138) | Press F1 |
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| 1348519 | 2013-07-11 07:31:00 | Yep faulty Switch will do it as well - If you get stuck for a switch, give us a yell, as long as its a standard size switch I got plenty of them you could have. Standard Switch : 8mm square 5107 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1348520 | 2013-07-11 07:35:00 | Yep that's the exact switch, happy to buy one if I can find a source. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1348521 | 2013-07-11 08:43:00 | You can find them pre-wired on eBay cheaply: www.ebay.com Although you might like to pay bugger all more and get 10 of them: www.ebay.com Wainuitech's offer is probably better though (faster anyway!) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1348522 | 2013-07-11 09:36:00 | yeah, Free is reasonably cheap -- got lots , all second hand but in PC's only takes a few minutes to pull ( oK carefully remove) them. Actually got a couple on new ones as well just gathering dust. Whats a letter cost to post these days ?? Haven't sent one thats not pre-paid for ages, got plenty of .50 Cent stamps :) If you want some Dug, PM me your mailing address. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1348523 | 2013-07-11 12:20:00 | PM sent. Dunno what's going on with this bloody thing, every time I put it back in the case it works for a couple hours then shuts down and refuses to restart. The power switch is definitely faulty but something else is wrong also. I've made a cardboard shield and fitted it under the board and it's been running for quite a while so fingers crossed, also am running on onboard graphics only for now, mainly because the graphics card blocks access to the front panel header. Let's see if it keeps working like this for a few days then maybe I'll put the graphics card back in. Really getting frustrated with this. Damn thing never shuts down when I'm watching either so I dunno if it's shutting down or crashing. I ran a stress test for about 20 mins last time it looked fixed, with CPU & GPU @ 100% temps were ok, CPU hit 62 and GPU 74 - considering the stock coolers and cramped space I'm happy with that. One thing if I can get this sorted, it's probably the quietest PC I've built in a long time. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1348524 | 2013-07-11 12:25:00 | Didn't miss a board standoff out of place? Are they all the same length and correct length? Check you don't have part of the I/O shield bent and stuck in a port or something..? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1348525 | 2013-07-11 21:58:00 | I'm about out of Ideas, there are only 4 standoffs in an itx case and only 4 supplied to screw in so yes they are in the correct place and all the same length. There is some sideways pressure on the board to get it in place as the IO shield seems to resist insertion, I've checked several times none of the tabs are going anywhere they shouldn't but I might remove the IO shield for now to eliminate it as a cause. After all this testing I'm left with a situation where the board boots into BIOS ok out of the case every time, then seems to be working fine when installed back into the case only to refuse to start again after being in the case for a while. I'm thinking some component is failing when powered, but pulling the mains plug out and leaving it for 10 mins doesn't work when pulling the board out of the case does ?? When it's running I've been able to install windows and run stress tests, do updates etc - everything seems fine. Then next time I try to turn it on it doesn't work again, usually the next day or overnight. I've swapped the PSU and taken the graphics card and each RAM chip out to no avail. Only thing left is to swap RAM and CPU from my main PC which I was trying to avoid. Also considering stealing the case off an ATX machine I have just to see if it will work in that. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1348526 | 2013-07-11 23:37:00 | Can you bench run it with all componants, but minus case. That should eliminate any case issue. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1348527 | 2013-07-12 02:02:00 | OK the saga continues. It's not taking it out of the case that is making it work again, it's disconnecting The PSU completely and then plugging it back in. I notice whenever I do this the SATA mode defaults back to IDE and I have to change it before it'll boot again so I'm wondering if there's a problem with the CMOS battery. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1348528 | 2013-07-12 04:11:00 | So set it up on the bench, booted into windows and set some music playing. An hour later it just turned off, no shutdown just off. So I guess I've been blaming the case unfairly. I'm back to suspecting the motherboard is faulty. |
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