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How to know if the Motherboard is defective

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Hi, Im a Tech.support hardware. Though we know how to troubleshoot a pc hardware, can you give some idea how to know if a motherboard is the problem in a short way to reduce time troubleshooting? tnx and more power.:)

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The surest way I can determine if the motherboard is bad is to install (known good) basic components and see if the system will fire up.

Basic setup for testing:

CPU
Motherboard
RAM
Video(Card) & Monitor
Power Supply
Keyboard

Many motherboard these days also come with some form of self diagnostics built right in (in addition to the BIOS beep codes). Either with LEDs, or on screen codes, I’ve even run across a motherboard that will “talk”.

Good Luck

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A known good CPU and a POST card should be all that you need to verify a motherboard.

Use a good power supply tester to check the system power supply prior to installing your known good CPU.

Chas

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I use whats called a post card, it is a PCI card that you put in befor you boot up. It give ether a LED or number combo that tells you where the post starts and stops. If I get nothing after regular trouble shooting, reset the bios, new memory, good power supply,flash the BIOS ect. And the card gets nothing, I pitch the main board.

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To start… If you go to microsoft downloads they have a free hardware tester that you put on a floppy takes 2 min to test all internal hardware… Also find the program (Check It) That is also one of the best ones to test CPU,RAM,HARD DRIVES,VIDEO…And almost everything(EXCELENT) on both…Please let me know if this help you or anybody else…Joe

Microsoft download, “Free Hardware Tester”

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Free is exactly what I need; searched hi and low could not locate. Do you by chance recall the link address?

Dub Ya

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Simple way to find out dead motherboard
use motherboard diagnostic card that’s
available in market 2or4 digit
diagnostic card will show you post code
of routine testing motherboard

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