Question Mistakes were made... I might have shorted my motherboard

[Patrick_60]

Hi everyone!

Just a quick question.

I started a bench build by quickly shoving my screwdriver on the motherboard power pins and saw a spark.

Now, the computer starts the second I switch the PSU on. There is no sound, no display, only fans and after 2 brief seconds, it turns off with no way to start it again unless switching psu off (or unplugging) and back on.

Did I fry the mobo and should toss it, or only the power pins and there is something I could do at home without taking it to a repair shop?

I havr been doing this for years, but I wasn’t really looking when I went for the pins and might have touched the wrong ones.


Thanks for any help / personal experience.

 

[DSzymborski]

Did these parts ever work together? And what are these parts?

 

[Patrick_60]

I shorted putting back the original parts, yes they were working before.

An old am3 board with a X6 1055T.

I would need to find another build to swap cpus and boards and see whats going on. I doubt the CPU is dead though!

 

[jsmithepa]

Clear CMOS. Good luck.