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Testing a Mainboard out of the case?
Hello,
I've got a Biostar M7SUA Mainboard that I'm building a custom case for. I don't have the case designed/built yet, but I would like to fire up the board to check out the pieces. After swapping out the cpus, power supplies, and fans (on the cpu and case connectors), the beast powers on for 5 seconds and then shuts off. I've got the board jumpered for 100 MHZ and running and AMD 950. A hard drive is plugged into the board and ps for a load. Is there something else I need to jumper to get this fired up, or are these motherboards getting smart enough to know when they are not in a case? Thanks, bl8n8r |
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nope it should work without case. Make sure you are not shorting the board.
Meaning ground the motherboard on a wooden platform "bad_knee" wrote in message om... Hello, I've got a Biostar M7SUA Mainboard that I'm building a custom case for. I don't have the case designed/built yet, but I would like to fire up the board to check out the pieces. After swapping out the cpus, power supplies, and fans (on the cpu and case connectors), the beast powers on for 5 seconds and then shuts off. I've got the board jumpered for 100 MHZ and running and AMD 950. A hard drive is plugged into the board and ps for a load. Is there something else I need to jumper to get this fired up, or are these motherboards getting smart enough to know when they are not in a case? Thanks, bl8n8r |
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"Joseph" wrote in message ...
nope it should work without case. Make sure you are not shorting the board. Meaning ground the motherboard on a wooden platform Yup - I got it insulated.. OK just wanted to make sure I was not missing something here. Thanks Joseph |
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bad_knee wrote:
Hello, I've got a Biostar M7SUA Mainboard that I'm building a custom case for. I don't have the case designed/built yet, but I would like to fire up the board to check out the pieces. After swapping out the cpus, power supplies, and fans (on the cpu and case connectors), the beast powers on for 5 seconds and then shuts off. I've got the board jumpered for 100 MHZ and running and AMD 950. A hard drive is plugged into the board and ps for a load. Is there something else I need to jumper to get this fired up, or are these motherboards getting smart enough to know when they are not in a case? Thanks, bl8n8r How are you getting the system to start outside the case? I'm assuming you have a intermittent switch connected to the motherboard to get the ATX PSU to fire up. Shutdowns can be from overheating, and this can be from an overheating PSU, too, not just a CPU. I'm just grasping at straws here. Ari -- Are you registered as a bone marrow donor? You regenerate what you donate. You are offered the chance to donate only if you match a person on the recipient list. Visit www.marrow.org or call your local Red Cross and ask about registering to be a bone marrow donor. spam trap: replace shyah_right! with hotmail when replying |
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How are you getting the system to start outside the case? I'm assuming
you have a intermittent switch connected to the motherboard to get the ATX PSU to fire up. Shutdowns can be from overheating, and this can be from an overheating PSU, too, not just a CPU. Can't you do it with a screwdriver? I'm probably wrong. I thought I read that somewhere. http://www.ourstrangeworld.com |
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Antithesis said this...
Can't you do it with a screwdriver? You sure can. All you need to do is briefly short the two pins for the pwr_on switch and you're up and running. -- º~ dªv¡d ~º |
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"Antithesis" wrote in message
snip Can't you do it with a screwdriver? I'm probably wrong. I thought I read that somewhere. That's funny... My old chevy truck and my computer can use the same ignition. |
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spodosaurus wrote in message ...
sniP How are you getting the system to start outside the case? I'm assuming you have a intermittent switch connected to the motherboard to get the ATX PSU to fire up. Shutdowns can be from overheating, and this can be from an overheating PSU, too, not just a CPU. I just jumpered the power leads. The retailer gave me some things to try and determined it was faulty. They are shipping a new one...guess we'll see how it goes. |
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