I have a feeling I short-circuited by CPU or MB but here goes. While upgrading my PC I noticed it wasn't booting, so I opened it up and realized the CPU power connector was unplugged. I had thought I pushed the power button to turn it off and then I plugged the power cable back in only to see electricity jump from the cable to the MB connector. The computer shut off and when i turned it back on it started beeping on a loop one short beep then a long beep. I'd though it was a psu failure so i tried again correctly this time with a different psu i had laying around and had the same result. I have a old HP with a Anthlon x2 215. Anyone know whats wrong or how bad I royally screwed up?
PC won't boot (I did a stupid)
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"then I plugged the power cable back in only to see electricity jump from the cable to the MB connector"
There's no way to tell for sure unless you can replace each component one by one, but from the sound of that passage I would guess that you damaged your motherboard.
If that is the case there isn't any 'repair' that can be done at home to bring it back. You'll need to get a new one.
There's no way to tell for sure unless you can replace each component one by one, but from the sound of that passage I would guess that you damaged your motherboard.
If that is the case there isn't any 'repair' that can be done at home to bring it back. You'll need to get a new one.
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