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Do motherboards die easily?

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May 14, 2009 8:12:43 AM

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??

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May 14, 2009 9:41:02 AM

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..:) 
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a b à CPUs
May 14, 2009 12:18:25 PM

What are you using to clean the CPU?
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