Question Second opinion on non-working HP desktop ?

[Jasondurham88]

Hello, A computer repair shop where i live said my motherboard was shot. How can that happen when it was fine moving from one house to the other?
Is that normal?
Thanks

 

[Lutfij]

Did you ask the person to elaborate on what he meant by shot? Did it suffer a short(electrical), did it get damaged(broken PCB), did it just soak up moisture and say goodbye(humidity)?
Might want to list your specs to your build like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:

for a greater context to the issue.

Pictures of the motherboard(and system innards), also help.

 

[Jasondurham88]

Did you ask the person to elaborate on what he meant by shot? Did it suffer a short(electrical), did it get damaged(broken PCB), did it just soak up moisture and say goodbye(humidity)?
Might want to list your specs to your build like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:

for a greater context to the issue.

Pictures of the motherboard(and system innards), also help.

Well it doesn't power on anymore. There's an orange light on the tower. I dont know what he meant by shot/fried.

Its an older HP Pavilion desktop. I don't understand how it can malfunction just by transferring it to another home ?

Thanks

 

[Bob.B]

Well it doesn't power on anymore. There's an orange light on the tower. I dont know what he meant by shot/fried.

Its an older HP Pavilion desktop. I don't understand how it can malfunction just by transferring it to another home ?

Thanks

Take a moment and reseat all plugs and the ram and the gpu.
What does the orange light mean?