How to Find out whether your Motherboard is Broken

It is always not so easy to find out whether your motherboard is broken in computer troubleshooting, and it takes time and cannot just be done with a simple check or test. You must take several steps that follow the classic computer troubleshooting model to determine if you have a bad motherboard. In order to narrow down the problem, you need to consider each piece of hardware. You cannot make sure that you have a bad motherboard until you finish the whole elimination.

Instructions

1. Remove everything in your computer you can. Find all the cards installed on the motherboard and pull them out. If you have a video card please leave it. Then let’s test and see if the computer is powering on and working. Remove other add-on pieces and peripherals until you have nothing left but the basics that include the motherboard, memory, CPU, hard drive and video card. Take out the hard drive and even the video card if it is on a card. At some point, the motherboard should appear to work, if not go to the next step.
2. Now reseat the video card and hard drive. Take out and reset the CMOS battery is this action does not help. Usually there is a jumper marked on the motherboard that you will have to remove. Take out the CMOS battery after removing the jumper, and then restart the computer and then turn it off and reinstall the battery.
3. Find a good computer and put your CPU in it. If everything else fails, it will come down to either the problem is the CPU or the motherboard. Test your processor in a good computer or try replacing the CPU with a good one.
4. The last step is to replace a motherboard. If you have tried all the steps above, your motherboard is most likely bad and the final test is to replace the motherboard and see if this fixes your problem.