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A month ago I purchased a used ASRock K7VM2 from a seller on eBay. The
seller is a computer parts liquidator who removes motherboards and other
items from old computers and sells them. He claims that his parts are all
tested.
The motherboard would not post, no beeps, nothing. The only things connected
was a new video card, a RAM chip that tested good on another system, a good
CPU and fan/heatsink, and a computer power supply. A good monitor was
connected to the video card. The CPU fan would run, but the computer screen
remained blank.
So I sent it back to the seller, who then sent me 2 more K7VM2 motherboards.
The results were the same as before. Neither board would post or beep.
The reason I wanted a K7VM2 board in the first place was because I was
trying to repair a friend's computer, which had a dead K7VM2 motherboard.
Are ASRock motherboards that bad, or was I dealing with a seller of junk
parts? Thanks.
A month ago I purchased a used ASRock K7VM2 from a seller on eBay. The
seller is a computer parts liquidator who removes motherboards and other
items from old computers and sells them. He claims that his parts are all
tested.
The motherboard would not post, no beeps, nothing. The only things connected
was a new video card, a RAM chip that tested good on another system, a good
CPU and fan/heatsink, and a computer power supply. A good monitor was
connected to the video card. The CPU fan would run, but the computer screen
remained blank.
So I sent it back to the seller, who then sent me 2 more K7VM2 motherboards.
The results were the same as before. Neither board would post or beep.
The reason I wanted a K7VM2 board in the first place was because I was
trying to repair a friend's computer, which had a dead K7VM2 motherboard.
Are ASRock motherboards that bad, or was I dealing with a seller of junk
parts? Thanks.