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[wihi48]

Specs: Biostar G4ID3C

Cpu: Intel core2quad

Ram: 2x 2GB DDR3

Psu:(Vios) ATX-500W

No Harddrive/Cd rom

 

No display/Can't get into BIOS

 

Video Proof: 

 

[Megah3rtz]

You're sitting the motherboard on a metal case and you wonder why its not working?? 

[Megah3rtz]

Its short circuiting you genius. Take it off the metal and and put it on some cardboard, if it continues to fail to boot you fried your motherboard. 

[TheSuspect]

3 hours ago, Megah3rtz said:

You're sitting the motherboard on a metal case and you wonder why its not working?? 

Hah this is killing me. Anyway yeah. Pretty much what's wrong.

[wihi48]

I have successfully fried my mobo  (kindda new to building a computer)

 

Any cheap replacements?

Does my ram and CPU still work?

[Megah3rtz]

18 minutes ago, wihi48 said:

Any cheap replacements?

Does my ram and CPU still work?

No way to know without a new motherboard. 

 

Your RAM is probably okay, I don't know about the CPU. 

[wihi48]

39 minutes ago, Megah3rtz said:

No way to know without a new motherboard. 

 

Your RAM is probably okay, I don't know about the CPU. 

Thanks guys, learned a valuable lesson here...

 

I found a cheap replacement so I could try my CPU and RAM. Wish me luck

[Ryujin2003]

4 hours ago, wihi48 said:

Thanks guys, learned a valuable lesson here...

 

I found a cheap replacement so I could try my CPU and RAM. Wish me luck

Part of the reason I generally recommend higher end boards. I had a client mount his MSI MB to the case without standoffs. He brought it in for the same issues you had. Put in the mounts and everything worked fine. The MB shorted itself, but didn't do any damage as far as anyone can tell. Still running as far as I know.

 

Lesson learned. Good luck on everything else.