Is their anyway to tell if their is ESD damage to a MOBO?

Duh_tech · February 19, 2017

Hey is there any way to tell if there is ESD damage to a MOBO without turning on the computer?

Thanks in advance.

Godlygamer23 · February 19, 2017

Unless there's visible damage(traces damaged after an ESD event), no.

Duh_tech · February 19, 2017

10 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Unless there's visible damage(traces damaged after an ESD event), no.

But like what does visible damage look like?

Godlygamer23 · February 19, 2017

1 minute ago, Duh_tech said:

But like what does visible damage look like?

I doubt you'll see it on capacitors or any ICs, or even the traces because they're too big. For example, you wouldn't be able to see if a CPU is damaged from an ESD event because the die is not visible, and even if it was, the individual transistors would not be visible.

So in short, you would not be able to see any visible damage on the parts that you're thinking about. For a trace to be visibly damaged from ESD, it would have to be pretty thin(the high voltage can blow traces off boards).