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* Secure MoBo to plate, ensuring the risers are not grounding out the board. | * Secure MoBo to plate, ensuring the risers are not grounding out the board. | ||
* Test battery, | * Test battery, | ||
| − | * Add a processor and a fan for that MoBo | + | * Add a processor and a fan for that MoBo |
* Add some memory | * Add some memory | ||
* Attempt to post | * Attempt to post | ||
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**RAID | **RAID | ||
**SATA | **SATA | ||
| + | **Firewire | ||
| + | **HDMI | ||
==HAVE FUN== | ==HAVE FUN== | ||
Revision as of 13:33, 1 February 2009
Boards We Like to Test
How to Test
- 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 battery,
- Add a processor and a fan for that MoBo
- 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 controller
- periferials (mouse, keyboard, Video)
- Boot into BIOS
- change the boot order to be Floppy, hard drive
- Boot to Memtest, Let it run for a minute, it will run for ever if you let it (The memtest program is a boot option on the hard drive)
- Boot up to Operating System
- Check that the mouse and keyboard work
- If you have on board video check that it works.
- Test all the USB ports with a mouse
- If you have on board sound play a audio cd, if not then take a look at a data cd
- run stress-test
- Some cases might call for testing
- RAID
- SATA
- Firewire
- HDMI