Do motherboards die easily?

[casemods]

I had 3 motherboards that all died when I took them out of the case and such.

Should I have used a ground strap?

How can I make sure they are dead?

They all worked fine and after I took them out to clean the case and CPU and what not, they don't work...

One is intel d865glc, the other an nvidia nforce a something, socket 754, and the other a socket 478 gigabyte ga 8i11k or something like that...

Please help! I will just throw them out?? And buy a CPU + mobo combo with dual core from frys for $100?? And sell the CPU's and memory??

 

[dokk2]

Well now,,you might consider breadboarding them at what I call the "basic level",psu,1 stick of ram and a bootable floppy,and a kbd,there is no way that you can boot to 3 different mobo's with different chipsets with the same hdd,,but you can with the same floppy,if you have a floppy but no OS to put on it...

Go to ,,say,,Western Digital,,download their hdd diags,and let it install itself onto a floppy which will be bootable,of course if there is/may be no hdd connected to the computer it will have to boot to detect same,,thusly you now know the state of said mobo..

 

[evongugg]

What are you using to clean the CPU?

 

[evongugg]

New build won't post checklist

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-build-post-checklist

 

[liviu81x]

How about PCI testing cards that give you a 2 to 4 digit code about a motherboard problem, do they really work ? Here is the card:
http://www.pc-diagnostics.com/pc_diagnostics_tools/flippost_isa_pci_bus.shtml