Motherboard Problems?

I've been having problems with a computer I was building. When I went to turn it on, at first I was getting no video, but everything else turned on. Eventually after my fiddling, only the CPU fan would start. Finally I am at the point where when I go to turn on the machine, nothing happens at all. I took the motherboard out, and connected only the CPU and ram. I plugged the power into the motherboard from my PSU, and plugged the system fan into the motherboard. When I turn the motherboard on, nothing at all happens. Is this just a motherboard issue, or is there a chance that the CPU or RAM may be bad also?

I suspect it is almost definitely a fried motherboard. While I was working on it, a friend touched the motherboard and gave it a static shock. This is why I am pretty sure the motherboard is fried. I am just wondering if I need to get a replacement CPU and or RAM as well.

Can anyone give me any tests I should conduct in order to tell, other than putting the parts in another computer? I plan on testing that tomorrow, but I was wondering if there was a way I could tell now, so I can place my return request sooner. Thanks for any help.

 

Hi,

Place the mobo on a piece of cardboard, hook up only the cpu,hs with fan,1 stick of ram,video card,psu with 20 pin connector and 4 pin if your mobo has it.

Check that all your mobo jumpers are correct.
Check that the cpu fan is connected to the correct header on the mobo. This is very important.
connect monitor and power on switch from case.

Will it post?
Report back results
List your full system specs

Rick

 

It doesn't post. Nothing even turns on.

System Specs:

PCChips "M916" HT1683 Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU
Intel Pentium 4 2.26ghz Socket 478 CPU
Kingston 512mb PC3200 DDR Ram
Rosewill Radeon 9600 Video Card

Ive tried starting it with just those parts connecting, and nothing at all happens when I go to power it up.

 

I had the same problem when installing my board. Everthing powered up but no video. My main problem was that I had a weird front panel connector that was different from the connection on the board. Anyway after fiddling around with it I managed to boot up. Also did you connect the ATX+ 12v connector, some boards will have a square 4 pin connection next to the cpu socket, if it isn't connected it won't boot up.

 

Follow feberj advice about the 12v 4 pin connector.

disconect the case switch,then short the two prongs that it connected to with a screw driver this will do the same thing as the switch and tell you if the switch is bad.

If the computer still won't turn on disconect everything from the psu, then short the green and any black wirer on the 20 pin connecter with a paper clip, this should turn the psu on if not then bad psu.

Rick