Gerry,

Did you hear the power supply come on when you turned it on?  In either
case?  If the power supply is coming on but the board is not responding, you
could very likely have damaged it.  The only other way to know for sure is
to take ALL of the components off the suspect motherboard, put them in
another motherboard, and try again.  If it works at that point, you know the
other board is fried.  Ouch!  HTH.

Kyle

From: "Gerry Coburn" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 2:38 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Motherboard health


> I transferred a fully functional Abit BH6 motherboard to a new case
recently and connected up a video card, mouse, keyboard, floppy and hard
drive and 64Mb of memory. I connected up an atx power supply - the wrong way
round!! and attempted to power up. There was absolutely no life obvious in
the board. Have I fried it or am I missing something?
>
> I removed the board from the chassis and, with the same components on
board I tried to boot it up in case I had earthed it first time round. I
still got the same result as on my first attempt. I then reset the bios by
removing the battery and replacing it later but still to no avail.
>
> Can someone confirm that I've wrecked the board or perhaps tell me where
I'm going wrong? I must have had a mental block to connect up the wrong way
round and yes it is possible!!
>
> Gerry Coburn

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