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I recently built some scrapyard PC, and the power button didn't work when I tried to turn it on. So I'm sitting here, with a screw drive in my hand, with some cloth gloves on, and I'm too scared to short out the port or whatever it's called. Should I be?

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i've done it a lot of times with the screwdriver (my Z11's Power button broke) and im fine and here to tell the tale.

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No

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There is literally thing you can damage by shorting the pins. When you press the power button, all it is doing is shorting the pins.

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I recently built some scrapyard PC, and the power button didn't work when I tried to turn it on. So I'm sitting here, with a screw drive in my hand, with some cloth gloves on, and I'm too scared to short out the port or whatever it's called. Should I be?

not at all? your just jumpin pins

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there's a bunch of students at my school that just go around shorting out all of the computers and they'r fine

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It's fine, I use my keys all the time and there is never a problem.

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there's a bunch of students at my school that just go around shorting out all of the computers and they'r fine

I have a friend who used a key to short the USB ports of PC's all the time, gave a nice spark and it rebooted/crashed the computer. He still roams the earth. ;)

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I have a friend who used a key to short the USB ports of PC's all the time, gave a nice spark and it rebooted/crashed the computer. He still roams the earth. ;)

 

 

I've actually seen fried USB ports from that. We used to do that back in highschool with a ballpoint pen 

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Waht... I shorted out the pin but nothing happened, then I unplugged the AC cord and turned off the PSU and the CPU fan started spinning for a second...Waht?

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Waht... I shorted out the pin but nothing happened, then I unplugged the AC cord and turned off the PSU and the CPU fan started spinning for a second...Waht?

you're... doing it wrong?

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Don't worry about it and you don't need gloves as long as you're just holding the handle of the screwdriver. ;)

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Umm...WHAT DO I DO!

What mobo do you have? Is it the one in your signature?

 

If it is, the screwdriver needs to touch pin 8 and 6. 

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This is weird, I've even tried this on another motherboard with a different PSU and nothing happened....

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For some reason my PC won't turn on. I've tried shorting pins, and all that, yet it still won't turn on. I can confirm the the PSU is delivering power to the MOBO because the LED on my motherboard is on...Help??

If you're actually shorting the right pins, it should power up. Make sure you're touching the right ones, and if you are. RIP mobo (maybe psu, maybe)

 

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Do you got a bios version of  7817v15 or newer? Do you got the H81M-P33 and the G3258?

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I'm gonna try to switch out the PSU and see if that works.

 

Do you got a bios version of 7817v15 or newer?


This is some old ass MOBO so no...
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Just because the MB lights turn on doesn't mean the PSU is working, it just means that the right amount of voltage is delivered. Disconnect EVERYTHING, check all the cables and try booting with 1 stick of ram. 

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