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Hardware Test Bench

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by tbrokens

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We are looking for a hardware test bench. I have never seen one of these but one of our guys claim they exist. It has been described to me to be a motherboard with every type of slot available for testing. In other words it has multi cpu slots (socket types) as well as pci, isa, agp, etc, etc. Supposedly you can test questionable hardware on this bench and it will tell you if the hardware is good or bad. If anyone has one or has seen one and might know where they can be purchased, I would greatly appreciate a reply. Thanks for your help.

Troy

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by been there

First you get a known good computer and take it out of the case. You make sure that you mount the motherboard if possible with some type wooden board drilled for standoffs to mount the motherboard on then you learn about inserting and removing cards, CPUs, Memory, drives, Keyboards, Monitors ect. Make sure to have reliable sustitutes and read more than one troubleshooting book. The MOB (Motherboard) is the key to success and make sure its not a cheap one, or your doomed because of production shortcuts and lack of compatability issues. Quality is just as important as skills. It just makes it easy to remove and replace hardware without opening a case every time you have to do something. Any way you get the Idea?

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