[SOLVED] How do I know if my mobo is damaged by electrostatic discharge?

[kooiankeen]

That day I put my mobo on my bed and the outside layer of the anti static bag, idk if it's damaged by static, if so, what will happen? Will it just not work or slower down the system performance?

 

[Grobe]

It depends. There are several possible outcomes in case of esd discharge.

• Best case: ESD hit ground terminal AND not powerful enough to make further damage to components. If a discharge is powerful, it may kill the board even if you touched ground (this case: screw hole and metal casing around external adapters) first.
• Worst case: ESD affect a critical component and the mobo goes dead.
• Many cases: Damage is already done, but the mobo doesn't show any sign of malfunction right away. It may goes weeks before the damage causes the system to malfunction.

 

[g-unit1111]

Probably the best thing to do would be to setup a test bed outside of your case and set your motherboard on the original box that it came with and connect your PSU and GPU to it. If you can get it to POST that way then you're fine. But most likely if there was any damage done the motherboard won't work at all that way, either.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

ESD damage is SUPER RARE. Most likely everything is fine. In that scenaerio very little chance for ESD DAMAGE.

 

[norcalsc2]

you'll be fine

 

[Racksmith]

Unless you were wearing nylon socks and rubbing your feet on a nylon carpet before you touched the motherboard then you've got no worries, ESD damage us incredibly rare, most PCBs are designed with large earth planes that tend to absorb most normally generated static electricity. Unless you're handling components you don't have to worry.

 

[Darkbreeze]

In 30+ years of changing hardware, upgrading, building and working with systems, I've never personally encountered a problem with any hardware having been damaged by ESD. Doesn't mean it can't happen, but it's unlikely especially if you simply take the time to discharge yourself to something by touching it before handling the hardware before you touch your components after walking across carpet, especially if you're wearing socks and no shoes.

It's far MORE likely that you've failed to connect something correctly or something is just plain faulty, and was all along whether out of the box or previously if it was moved from another build.