speed_mst
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motherboard question
if a mother board is dead will it still give power to other hardware? or will it still work giiving power to the hardware even though is dead?
Last thing, my old computer dont beep on start up but works fine, my new custom built computer dont beep, is that normal?
Last thing, my old computer dont beep on start up but works fine, my new custom built computer dont beep, is that normal?
Hi speed, assuming the power supply is ATX, not AT and depending how dead is dead :) the answer is yes and no but mostly no however if it is AT the answer is YES it should give power to the other Hardware the best test would be to take the power out of the mother board...With your old computer it could be that the speaker connection on the mother board has come out or dead and sometimes some mother boards have a enable and disable function in the Bios... hope it helps... As far as you new board goes... disconnect all the un-necessary stuff out like sound card, network card modem , floppy cdrom, HDD and just try to start it by itself i.e. Mother Board, memory, video card only...
you can turn off the error codes in the bios, so in answer to the beep question, yeah that could be normal.
as far as the board question goes, i'd have to say that the power will still be able to make it to the perophs plugged into it. so if you planned on poking a screwdriver in there with the power on, don't. ;^)
but depending on what, specifically, is wrong with the board, the answer could change.
as far as the board question goes, i'd have to say that the power will still be able to make it to the perophs plugged into it. so if you planned on poking a screwdriver in there with the power on, don't. ;^)
but depending on what, specifically, is wrong with the board, the answer could change.
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