Hi Tom's Community,
I've looked into breadboarding, and like this technique of testing each component in a system first before putting the entire thing together.
But, I had a question. If you need the motherboard to at least be non-defective to test any other component, what do you do if you happen to have a dead motherboard?
How would you deduce that it was the MB that was the problem?
I assume that you'd come to this conclusion by discovering that no other components appear to be working, and then assume that the problem has a large possibility of being the motherboard itself.
But, is there anyway to test the motherboard itself to find out if it's defective or dead? I'd like to be able to have a definitive answer if the motherboard I purchase does end up being defective, so that when I go to return it, I can tell them for certain that I know it's defective.
Also.. what are the chances of the motherboard having some problem or problems, but still functioning? What I mean I guess is what happens if you get a MB that has some issues, but they appear to be glitches in your system and hard to pinpoint..
Thanks so much for all the help everyone has given me so far.
I've looked into breadboarding, and like this technique of testing each component in a system first before putting the entire thing together.
But, I had a question. If you need the motherboard to at least be non-defective to test any other component, what do you do if you happen to have a dead motherboard?
How would you deduce that it was the MB that was the problem?
I assume that you'd come to this conclusion by discovering that no other components appear to be working, and then assume that the problem has a large possibility of being the motherboard itself.
But, is there anyway to test the motherboard itself to find out if it's defective or dead? I'd like to be able to have a definitive answer if the motherboard I purchase does end up being defective, so that when I go to return it, I can tell them for certain that I know it's defective.
Also.. what are the chances of the motherboard having some problem or problems, but still functioning? What I mean I guess is what happens if you get a MB that has some issues, but they appear to be glitches in your system and hard to pinpoint..
Thanks so much for all the help everyone has given me so far.