I'm not an IT expert and I have just dabbled over the years adding cards and changing drives. I also occasionally built my own PC. Anyhow, I watched this video and this guy said that when working on a PC you should turn the power off at the back and then press the Power On Switch at the front to discharge all the capacitors on the motherboard.
Well, I had never done that before, I had only ever switched the power switch off at the back, but it sounded like a good idea to me so when I went to disconnect a hard drive I did exactly what he said, I turned the power switch off at the back and then I pressed to power on switch at the front and I saw my PC try to start and then fade away. I earthed myself and then went inside and only disconnected a SATA cable, but when I went to switch on my PC back on again it powerd up but there was no bleep, the fan ran uncontrloably and there was no image on my monitor.
I eventually discovered that my board had died and I have a post about it here I put up a few years ago. I sold the P6T Deliux board for £10 on eBay and I asked the guy who bought it to let me know what was wrong with it. He said he had a machne and had to reflash the BIOS because it has lost its memory.
So now I'm scared to do that procedure again, and turn the power off at the back and then turn the power on at the front to discharge the board. But equally I don't feel comfortable putting in a new circuit board into my PCIe slot wiothout discarging the boards capacitors firsrt.
Hmmm, what do you guys reckon?
Well, I had never done that before, I had only ever switched the power switch off at the back, but it sounded like a good idea to me so when I went to disconnect a hard drive I did exactly what he said, I turned the power switch off at the back and then I pressed to power on switch at the front and I saw my PC try to start and then fade away. I earthed myself and then went inside and only disconnected a SATA cable, but when I went to switch on my PC back on again it powerd up but there was no bleep, the fan ran uncontrloably and there was no image on my monitor.
I eventually discovered that my board had died and I have a post about it here I put up a few years ago. I sold the P6T Deliux board for £10 on eBay and I asked the guy who bought it to let me know what was wrong with it. He said he had a machne and had to reflash the BIOS because it has lost its memory.
So now I'm scared to do that procedure again, and turn the power off at the back and then turn the power on at the front to discharge the board. But equally I don't feel comfortable putting in a new circuit board into my PCIe slot wiothout discarging the boards capacitors firsrt.
Hmmm, what do you guys reckon?
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