For the first time in my life, I killed a motherboard....

[Engineer]

Had to post this somewhere so here goes. Bought a new Core I5 system, and in order to save money, I decided to take my daughter's Zerotherm 120mm heatsink/fan out of her small PC and add a 1156 heatsink bracket to it. The case is basically a Qpack (very damn small) and was difficult in getting the AM2 bracket loose from the CPU. So, in my late night tired ways, I pulled out the ole screwdriver. All it took was one slip and bam, a large gouge into the board. Needless to say, the board no longer fires up. I am now sad.

Thanks for listening. That is all!

 

[evident]

on a related note: how do you short out a motherboard?

 

[MotF Bane]

on a related note: how do you short out a motherboard?

Lots of electricity.

 

[MoPHo]

I once killed a mother with a board.

 

[MotF Bane]

Had to post this somewhere so here goes. Bought a new Core I5 system, and in order to save money, I decided to take my daughter's Zerotherm 120mm heatsink/fan out of her small PC and add a 1156 heatsink bracket to it. The case is basically a Qpack (very damn small) and was difficult in getting the AM2 bracket loose from the CPU. So, in my late night tired ways, I pulled out the ole screwdriver. All it took was one slip and bam, a large gouge into the board. Needless to say, the board no longer fires up. I am now sad.

Thanks for listening. That is all!

RIP motherboard.

 

[her209]

Ouch. At least you now have an excuse to buy a new motherboard, if not a new computer.

 

[lxskllr]

You might be able to fix it. You can use a pencil, or they also make stuff to create traces on a PCboard. It may not work, but it would be interesting to try, and you can only win at this point.

 

[Engineer]

Ouch. At least you now have an excuse to buy a new motherboard, if not a new computer.

The whole point was to save money. I would have been better off just buying a new 1156 heatsink/fan, lol!

 

[Engineer]

You might be able to fix it. You can use a pencil, or they also make stuff to create traces on a PCboard. It may not work, but it would be interesting to try, and you can only win at this point.

I thought about that. I think there is a silver laced ink pen that you can use. I might try to find one if cheap enough. The gouge isn't very deep so the inner board "should" be fine.

 

[randay]

it happens, once i scraped a surface mount LED off, board still worked though. i think thats the worse ive done but i have done the slip and hit the board thing quite a few times.

 

[geno]

I killed my first one last year, although it was 5 years old...The HS was basically glued to the CPU, when I went to lift the HS, the CPU pulled out of the socket and put too much upward force on the socket itself. I found a $35 replacement and I was good to go.

As for your mobo, RIP

 

[JM Aggie08]

Your username is very misleading...

 

[mrjminer]

I killed my first one last year, although it was 5 years old...The HS was basically glued to the CPU, when I went to lift the HS, the CPU pulled out of the socket and put too much upward force on the socket itself. I found a $35 replacement and I was good to go.

As for your mobo, RIP

I've almost done this with my Tuniq Tower more times than I can count.

OP: Try the pencil, read up on pencil volt mods for GPUs if you don't know what to do

 

[RichUK]

I killed a motherboard once with a volt mod that went wrong. I have poor soldering skills.

 

[Twista]

I killed my first one last year, although it was 5 years old...The HS was basically glued to the CPU, when I went to lift the HS, the CPU pulled out of the socket and put too much upward force on the socket itself. I found a $35 replacement and I was good to go.

As for your mobo, RIP

Thats crazy because in my noob days i hot glued a Pentium I cpu to a heatsink thinking they held on like that. Needless to say it ran just fine for years

 

[Engineer]

Your username is very misleading...

Heh!

If you saw where I had this thing stuffed down into and the size of the heatsink, you would understand!

 

[Flammable]

Heh!

If you saw where I had this thing stuffed down into and the size of the heatsink, you would understand!

sounds dirty

 

[RU482]

Thats crazy because in my noob days i hot glued a Pentium I cpu to a heatsink thinking they held on like that. Needless to say it ran just fine for years

wait....what??:\

 

[us3rnotfound]

I've scraped my motherboard I'm using right now with a pair of pliers, yelled out some choice words and fired it back up. No problems whatsoever, I was rather surprised and happy about this.

 

[daw123]

Thats crazy because in my noob days i hot glued a Pentium I cpu to a heatsink thinking they held on like that. Needless to say it ran just fine for years

A friend of mine wedged a DIMM into a broken RAM socket using a combination of blue tack and lolly pop sticks. The computer lasted a few years more before eventually dying.

 

[Engineer]

Well,I scrapped the coating off of the traces and amazingly, they looked fine. I metered them out and they all show good. The gouge seems to be between a set of traces. Not sure if anything inside the board (multi layer I assume) was damaged or not. I tested the CPU on another board and it posts fine so that isn't it.

Oh well, one of the things I was going to do was to retire my other daughter's ECS board (and AMD X2 chip) when I built my I5 system. I guess I'll pass it on to daughter #2 and try Vista or Win 7 to see if it is more stable with either of those OS. Board tends to lock up from time to time...something that ECS boards seem to have a reputation for, sadly.

BTW, board that is toast is a GF8200 board by Zotac.

Oh, and this wasn't meant to be much of a troubleshooting thread or I would have posted it in Motherboards. I just needed a place to say my rant and give the board it's final farewell.

 

[Imp]

And that is a major reason why I still have a defective mobo 3 years later; SATA controllers (both I & II) are defective, but didn't have the balls to remove the heatsink with a screw driver.

 

[Rezag3000]

You killed a motherboard!?!?!?! You sick bastard

 

[Engineer]

You killed a motherboard!?!?!?! You sick bastard

I know!

RIP!

 

[skyking]

my first kill was a video card, removing the heatsink and cutting a trace with the forceps.
You always remember your first kill.