Motherboards
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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 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