- Apr 2, 2013
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A family member of a friend of mine recently had their motherboard go out. Despite his lack of knowledge about computers, he took his entire system apart and tried to put in the new motherboard himself. Needless to say, he couldn't even get it mounted. So I told my friend to have him send it to me for reassembly. When I got it, everything was loose in the case and the video card was wrapped in a plastic walmart bag...sigh. His system is a pre-built pc like you get from Cyberpower, etc.
So, I inspected everything and put it all back together. When I fired it up, everything powered up, all of the fans came on, the motherboard light came on and the GPU fan is going. I just don't get any signal to my monitor, no bios bootup display or anything. I checked over everything to make sure it was all properly installed and nothing could be shorting the motherboard and everything seems fine. He broke one of his hard drives while packing it and I don't know if it was the one with the OS on it or not but even with no OS on the working drive, I should at least see the bios screen. Also, he only left 3 motherboard screws in the box for me so the MB is only mounted with 3 screws. It feels firmly mounted though. Lastly, he lost the internal speaker, so I can't hear if it is posting or not.
Any ideas as to what may be wrong? At this point I am suspecting that the GPU may have gotten fried from the static of the plastic bag.
System specs:
CPU: AMD FX-6300 with stock cooler (I ended up replacing the CPU (he bent pins on his old one)
MB: ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 AM3+
GPU: EVGA 550ti
PSU: no name 400W
Hard Drive: 500GB Seagate Barracuda
He broke one of his hard drives while packing it and I don't know if it was the one with the OS on it or not.
So, I inspected everything and put it all back together. When I fired it up, everything powered up, all of the fans came on, the motherboard light came on and the GPU fan is going. I just don't get any signal to my monitor, no bios bootup display or anything. I checked over everything to make sure it was all properly installed and nothing could be shorting the motherboard and everything seems fine. He broke one of his hard drives while packing it and I don't know if it was the one with the OS on it or not but even with no OS on the working drive, I should at least see the bios screen. Also, he only left 3 motherboard screws in the box for me so the MB is only mounted with 3 screws. It feels firmly mounted though. Lastly, he lost the internal speaker, so I can't hear if it is posting or not.
Any ideas as to what may be wrong? At this point I am suspecting that the GPU may have gotten fried from the static of the plastic bag.
System specs:
CPU: AMD FX-6300 with stock cooler (I ended up replacing the CPU (he bent pins on his old one)
MB: ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 AM3+
GPU: EVGA 550ti
PSU: no name 400W
Hard Drive: 500GB Seagate Barracuda
He broke one of his hard drives while packing it and I don't know if it was the one with the OS on it or not.
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