motherboard shorted ?

[rsw]

specs:
amd xp2200+
1gb ddr 2700
MSI KT3 Ultra mobo
bios: AMIBIOS
psu: pcToys 420W Aluminum PowerMaxx

I've been fiddling with disabling the raid on this mobo, but decided to give that up. I decided to move my hhds to IDE1, and move my cdrom/rw to IDE 2, leaving IDE 3 and 4 open. However, while using some tweezers to pull out the jumpers from my drives, the tweezers fell onto the board. I was wondering if this could have caused a short somewhere in the mobo? Because ... now that i try to press the power button, nothing happens. When i was working with the drives the computer was of course off, but the power cord was plugged into the psu with the charge enabled (the '1' button of 0 or 1 on the psu). So i'm not sure if the tweezers completed a circuit somewhere and shorted it.

The psu seems to work, it draws power from the wall outlet when i enable the charge. (haven't tested with a dmm or anything)
I took out all the drives and cables, leaving only the cpu / heatsink and the psu plugged in. Still nothing. I also checked the wires running from the power button .. it was plugged in like it was supposed to be.

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

 

[Cybercraig]

Why do people insist on working on their PC with it plugged in? Not a good idea. Try clearing CMOS and cross your fingers. Your BIOS is probably scrambled like Grandma's eggs.

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[Phasics]

I love my duel BIOS !

keep it in mind for your next motherboard it takes all the danger and fun out of BIOS updates and messing around on your mobo 😉 which anit axactly a bad thing

 

[rsw]

Yeah i got my box to boot again by clearing the bios, and now all my bios settings are on safeboot settings. However, only 512 / 1Gb of ram is recognized at startup. Is there a setting in the bios which i can mess with to fix this ? -- i tried increasing the voltage for ddr but that didn't do anything.

(ddr 2700)

 

[tweebel]

Try either one of the chips and see if one fails. If it doesn't. Boot up with 1 stick, power down and add the second stick, see what happens. Check the RAM-timings and RAM speed.