[Asterisk-Users] SuperMicro X5DE8-GG Motherboard Goes Kaput after Installing TE410P Card - Yikes!

[Michael Welter]

Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 00:32 -0500, Tim Bass wrote:
> 
>>Hello All,
>>
>>This is my first post.  Sorry to post under such sad circumstances.  Here is
>>the situation:
>>
>>We installed a TE410P (today) in a SuperMicro 1U server today (Motherboard
>>X5DE8-GG), which was running great until installing this card.   After
>>installing the card, the motherboard will not boot (no beeps or indicators)
>>and there is no video output.  The fans sign and some of the motherboard
>>lights blink, but like a city with no nightlife, the board is, for all
>>practical purposes, dead.    We took the TE410P out and have tried just
>>about very thing under the sun, including clearing the CMOS and, sad to say,
>>the motherboard is still dead with no video out and no beeps.
> 
> 
> I have had something similar happen with a different card. Does the PSU
> fan pulse when you attempt to boot? If it is pulsing, you have a short.
> I have seen standoffs under a motherboard finally touch something that
> wasn't intended to and the system won't boot. 
> 
> The super micro 1u cases are not very stiff. It is an interesting
> engineering problem to make something that is hollow stiff with out
> being able to cross brace. 
> 
> So my suggestion is to pull the board out and maybe hook up to a
> different PSU with no chance of it shorting out to verify it is ok.

I had the same thing recently.  After pulling the MB I noticed an extra 
stud in the case that shouldn't have been there--it was shorting the board.

If you pull the MB out of the case, just lay it on a non-conductive 
surface and try to power it up.