nightmare3215
01-24-04, 07:57 PM
I think I broke my motherboard, its a pc chips and I have a barton 2500. In fact, Im pretty confident I did break it. Is there a way I can fix it by sending it in and having them charge me for servicing?
In case you haven't heard, my screwdriver slipt while I was putting the hs on and it chipped a part of the mainboard right next to it. I didn't hit any transistors or anything, and I didn't break anything off, I just made a sorta deep scratch. I'm pretty confident also that I didnt cut off any of the transits/wirelines that were etched into the board, but I came close... very very close. :(
My problem is that when I hook everything up to the mobo, nothing at all powers up when I push the power button on the front of the case, I know its not the psu because I tested my father's working psu w/the mobo and it did the same thing. I don't think I put the wires for the case buttons in wrong because they were simple and color coded.
How hard/easy is it to break your processor?? I may have pushed a little on the heatsink, but I never gave too much force. Also, when I was putting the hs on, I got the clips to go in easier by turning the hs a little sideways, but I never shoved it on crooked. Do you think I will be safe or do you think I could've broken it? Also, I set the heatsink on the processor and took it off a few times before I figured out how to put the clips down. The very last time I put it down, there was still the phase change stuff on the bottom and it covered the whole area of the core, but there were a few very thin indents in the phase change heat stuff that should've even out when I put the clips in.
Back to my original question, do you think the mobos done for? Does it usually do "nothing" when its broken? I don't hear anything power up and no lights turn on. The hsf doesn't move at all either. You think that it could be a problem with the case buttons, or do you think that for sure that its the mobo?
In case you haven't heard, my screwdriver slipt while I was putting the hs on and it chipped a part of the mainboard right next to it. I didn't hit any transistors or anything, and I didn't break anything off, I just made a sorta deep scratch. I'm pretty confident also that I didnt cut off any of the transits/wirelines that were etched into the board, but I came close... very very close. :(
My problem is that when I hook everything up to the mobo, nothing at all powers up when I push the power button on the front of the case, I know its not the psu because I tested my father's working psu w/the mobo and it did the same thing. I don't think I put the wires for the case buttons in wrong because they were simple and color coded.
How hard/easy is it to break your processor?? I may have pushed a little on the heatsink, but I never gave too much force. Also, when I was putting the hs on, I got the clips to go in easier by turning the hs a little sideways, but I never shoved it on crooked. Do you think I will be safe or do you think I could've broken it? Also, I set the heatsink on the processor and took it off a few times before I figured out how to put the clips down. The very last time I put it down, there was still the phase change stuff on the bottom and it covered the whole area of the core, but there were a few very thin indents in the phase change heat stuff that should've even out when I put the clips in.
Back to my original question, do you think the mobos done for? Does it usually do "nothing" when its broken? I don't hear anything power up and no lights turn on. The hsf doesn't move at all either. You think that it could be a problem with the case buttons, or do you think that for sure that its the mobo?