How to start a dead motherboard

Okay, it might sound a bit hard to believe and I don't guarantee that it will always work (depends on how bad your motherboard's conditions are), but here is what worked for me (at least till now). When I plugged in the computer the led on the motherboard would light up, but when I would press the power button, nothing would happen; therefore I tried a little modification to the power supply and it worked till now. If you are interested, please move on to the next step.

Step 1 A trip to your toolbox

So, what you need is basically quite obvious:

1) An old motherboard
2) A (preferably old) power supply
3) The rest of the parts to function with your motherboard

The tools you will need are basically these:

1) Wire cutter
2) (preferably) Soldering iron
3) Solder
4) Insulation tape or shrink tubing.

You might want a screwdriver in case you want to take out your power supply to easily work on it.

Once you have the above materials you can get started.

Comments

[hitachi8]

This mode just turn the power supply on , immediatly when you put AC power in it ... Ohh and yes , this is a ghetto mod.

[drresearch]

Correct, but it still made the motherboard start (in my case).

[asoo1]

if it make your mobo run then your power swich was broken

[Madrias357]

Nice! Now I have a way to make one of my projects work.

[tofush0e]

this is so ghetto.

[Scott_Tx]

Have to add this to my list of last ditch hacks to try after the warranty has expired.

[lemonie]

Interesting and useful - any idea what caused this fault to occur?

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[drresearch]

Actually I don't know what might have caused the fault, but I have also another newer motherboard which also did the same thing, but I already replaced it and moved the CPU, RAM , etc. to the new board so I cannot try it on that board.