I posted about this 2 days ago, but might have overworded it, I'll try to simplify my quesiton...
I plugged a sound card (sb live) into my mobo that had been causing restarts into my system because the sound card was using had stopped working (driver issues). I figured it might work, and the worst that would happen is an occational restart.
What happened was the system booted, (win2k) bsod'ed during the bootup, I remove the card, now the system doesn't POST, but the optical and hard drives spin up. I figure the mobo's fried, as it doesn't give any error beeps.
I order a new mobo, it's on it's way...during the wait, I transfer over the ram and sound card that was working, except for driver problems. To my surprise, this kills this system too, so I figure either one of the sticks of ram or 2nd sound card was shorted out too. No problem, this is only another $60.
My main concern here is, what about other components in the first system (AIW radeon, hard drive, cpu...) could they also contain shorts now from the original system getting damaged? I'd really hate to plug in my video card and drives to the new mobo, only to short it out.
I plugged a sound card (sb live) into my mobo that had been causing restarts into my system because the sound card was using had stopped working (driver issues). I figured it might work, and the worst that would happen is an occational restart.
What happened was the system booted, (win2k) bsod'ed during the bootup, I remove the card, now the system doesn't POST, but the optical and hard drives spin up. I figure the mobo's fried, as it doesn't give any error beeps.
I order a new mobo, it's on it's way...during the wait, I transfer over the ram and sound card that was working, except for driver problems. To my surprise, this kills this system too, so I figure either one of the sticks of ram or 2nd sound card was shorted out too. No problem, this is only another $60.
My main concern here is, what about other components in the first system (AIW radeon, hard drive, cpu...) could they also contain shorts now from the original system getting damaged? I'd really hate to plug in my video card and drives to the new mobo, only to short it out.