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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. | ||
*Connect | *Connect | ||
− | |||
**IDE II | **IDE II | ||
**Floppy | **Floppy | ||
+ | **Power Supply | ||
+ | **PCI Video Card | ||
***Some cases might call for testing | ***Some cases might call for testing | ||
****RAID | ****RAID | ||
****SATA | ****SATA | ||
+ | *Change the boot order in BIOS. | ||
+ | *The Floppy Drive should have Memtest floppy Disk allready in it. | ||
+ | *The CD Drive should have Knopix in it. | ||
*there is some knowledge needed to test motherboards properly. | *there is some knowledge needed to test motherboards properly. |
Revision as of 15:49, 15 May 2007
boards we like to test
how to test
- Secure MoBo to plate, ensuring the risers are not grounding out the board.
- Connect
- IDE II
- Floppy
- Power Supply
- PCI Video Card
- Some cases might call for testing
- RAID
- SATA
- Some cases might call for testing
- Change the boot order in BIOS.
- The Floppy Drive should have Memtest floppy Disk allready in it.
- The CD Drive should have Knopix in it.
- there is some knowledge needed to test motherboards properly.
here is a list of commands I think one should know. (besides the basics)
- mount(8)
You use this command to mount devices. Like a hard drive or a floppy disk. Some knowledge of the /dev directory is needed but not a whole lot. have fun. mount /dev/fd0 /place/in/file/system/to/mount/device ^ /|\ | this is most of the time /mnt/floppy if you type " umount /dev/fd0 " after that command you would unmount the device from the file system.
- dmesg(8)
This is a very nifty command. It tells all. As in it tells every thing about your system (well most of the time). it is used with the command less(1) a lot. At least with me or grep. Try and type: dmesg | less or dmesg | grep hdc # to see what device is attached to /dev/hdc TRY IT it's fun.
So You have all the parts and a knoppix disk.
- First make sure everything is pluged 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 some where 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 well boot the system into run level 2 which is short for start the system with out the X server.
- next check if the system can see all the hardware and anything else you pluged 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.