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 battery,
• Add a processor and a fan for that MoBo (may need to do some research to figurer out what kind)
• 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