Today my replacement motherboard finally arrived. Huzzah! I eagerly installed it into the computer, put it all together and got ready to connect the ATX power cable to the board. But wait, it isn’t long enough. How does that happen?
So that afternoon I ran down to Maplin and picked up an extention cable. I then plugged that in allowing me to connect my motherboard. I pulled the monitor cable out of the back of my desktop, plugged in a power cable and started the computer up.
Nothing happened.
Apparently the motherboard isn’t dead (despite us testing every component and working out it was the motherboard). I’m sure I did test the CPU but that it the only thing I can think is wrong. I’ve tried two motherboards, the first with a graphics card I had just bought and the second motherboard had integrated graphics so it’s very bad luck if it was one of those.
So now I have two motherboards for this machine. And the one I’m not using in the machine is bigger than the one that is installed in my machine so it doesn’t fit in the box or even the anti-static bag so it’s currently sitting, wrapped in a carrier bag, on my desk. Fantastic.
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