Difference between revisions of "Motherboards"

Revision as of 09:17, 3 June 2008

Grab a Motherboard, check for visual defects (blown caps, mutilated components)
Secure MoBo to plate, ensuring the risers are not grounding out the board.
Test batery,
Add a processor and a fan for that processor
Add some memory
Attempt to post
- connect the minimal things needed to post (power, keyboard, video, etc)
power down, then attach:
- imaged hard drive to IDE1
- CD Drive to IDE2
- Floppy Drive to FD controler
- periferials (mouse, keyboard, Video)
Boot into BIOS
- change the boot order to be Floopy, harddrive
Boot up to Operating System
- Check that the mouse and keyboard work
- If you have onboard video check that it works.
- Test all the USB ports with a mouse
- play a audio cd, and look at a data cd
- look at the contents of a floppy disk
- run stress-test
Some cases might call for testing
- RAID
- SATA

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 **SATA
-==So You have all the parts and a Knoppix disk.==
-*First make sure everything is plugged in yeah.
-  If you have never booted from a live linux cd or Knoppix now is the time to learn.
-   After the system POSTs you will be met by a command prompt it will say somewhere
-   to press F2 or F3 for a cheat sheet, feel free to do so. or you could just type:
-         knoppix 2
-  then enter. That command will boot the system into run level 2
-  which is short for start the system without the X server.
-* next check if the system can see all the hardware and anything else you plugged into it.
-  hint: use dmesg
-*well, what if?
-What if what!! It should work right RIGHT! Not all the time is right sometimes It just doesn't work.
- hint number two: check for bad capacitors. what are bad caps?? well google it or ask Dave Haskins ;)
- , but most if the time if it doesn't work then it just doesn't work.
 ==HAVE FUN==
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