Motherboards

Boards We Like to Test

• Socket 423
• Socket 462
• Socket 478
• Socket 479
• Socket 603
• Socket 754
• Socket 939
• Socket 940

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 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

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.