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Possibly Fried Motherboard?

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So i helped a friend put a new mobo, cpu, heatsink, and RAM into a computer last weekend. He had a general idea of what he was doing but certainly wasn't a fully educated builder. So today he got in his pci-e wifi card and tried putting it in himself. Since it was more convenient that the pci x1 slot next to the gpu, he tried putting it into the pci x 8 slot.......after pressing power it immediatley turned off and wont turn on again with or without the card in the right spot. I'm pretty sure he fried his mobo doing this but just wanted to confirm.

 

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Yeah sounds like a fried mobo to me as well. Have you checked the PSU though? Make sure everything is okay with it firstly? 

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Yeah sounds like a fried mobo to me as well. Have you checked the PSU though? Make sure everything is okay with it firstly? 

Ya its a pretty basic psu with no power switch on it or anything and nothing initially appears wrong.

 

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technically you should be able to install the WiFi card to any PCI-E slot

 

be it even the x16 slot

 

was the mobo inside the case or outside

 

is there any burn marks?

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So i helped a friend put a new mobo, cpu, heatsink, and RAM into a computer last weekend. He had a general idea of what he was doing but certainly wasn't a fully educated builder. So today he got in his pci-e wifi card and tried putting it in himself. Since it was more convenient that the pci x1 slot next to the gpu, he tried putting it into the pci x 8 slot.......after pressing power it immediatley turned off and wont turn on again with or without the card in the right spot. I'm pretty sure he fried his mobo doing this but just wanted to confirm.

The problem should not be the fact that he put a 1x pcie card in a 8x slot because that should work as long as he puts it on the left side of the slot. What might of happened is an electric discharge onto his motherboard. Did he wear a anti-static wrist strap while he was putting his pcie card. If not, that might be why

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technically you should be able to install the WiFi card to any PCI-E slot

 

be it even the x16 slot

 

was the mobo inside the case or outside

 

is there any burn marks?

it was inside the case, fully assembled. The computer had been fully functional beforehand.

 

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  3. Moto X4 G.Skill 32 GB Micro SD Spigen Case Project Fi

 

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