Motherboard assistance
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 3:42 pm
My flatmate purchased a 'rarely used' Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3761P06 00282 mobo from Trademe. He also purchased a AMD AM2 6000+ X2 chip (new) to go on the board. Now, when he connects the psu after putting together to test the board is completely dead...no fans spin and nothing happens....what we have done so far is:
*tried a different power supply and different power cable.
*took out the ram and tried
*we tried jump starting the system with a screw driver instead of using the power on/off switch
*swapped HDDs
*disconnected everything but psu, mobo, cpu, ram.
*took out the paper washers for mobo mounting screws to see if it wasn't grounded properly.
We don't have a spare cpu to test mobo with.
We can't get any life into this thing and yes, I did test the start terminals with a multimeter and confirmed there is a circuit. The conclusion I am coming to is, its knackered. Any suggestions or ideas on what we can try (other than buying a new mobo) I'd like to hear.
*tried a different power supply and different power cable.
*took out the ram and tried
*we tried jump starting the system with a screw driver instead of using the power on/off switch
*swapped HDDs
*disconnected everything but psu, mobo, cpu, ram.
*took out the paper washers for mobo mounting screws to see if it wasn't grounded properly.
We don't have a spare cpu to test mobo with.
We can't get any life into this thing and yes, I did test the start terminals with a multimeter and confirmed there is a circuit. The conclusion I am coming to is, its knackered. Any suggestions or ideas on what we can try (other than buying a new mobo) I'd like to hear.