ASRock H81 only boots if I leave the foam underneath it??

May 10, 2018
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I've got an ASRock H81 that apparently will only stay on if I put the foam piece that comes with the motherboard. If I don't put that under and just leave it on top of the motherboard box, it will turn on and then quickly turn off. I'm doing this with bare essentials mind you - ram, cpu, fan. I've been using it like this for quite some time already but figured I should get to the bottom of this.

Any ideas what would cause this and/or how to fix?
 
Solution
I could be that the box has a coating on it that conducts and this is your problem.

In other words...I don't think the foam is doing anything good....I think the box might be doing something bad.