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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Edward M <martinezedward228@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> And if the motherboard is somehow shorting out inside the case |
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>>> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/307187-30-motherboard-shorting-case |
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>> I completely forget that I had this happen once. The case design was |
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>> such that part of the motherboard contacted metal of the case. When I |
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>> tried to turn on, it would short and fail to boot up. I had to get a |
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>> piece of sticky film and made a layer on the case in the area where it |
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>> was touching. After doing that it worked fine. |
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> Cases usually ship with standoffs to prevent that kind of thing. The |
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> standoffs look like screws with screwholes in them, and a hexagonal |
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> shaft you can manage with your fingers, a socket wrench or |
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> (non-needlenose) pliers. |
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In my case (no pun intended) it was shorting even with the standoffs |
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because of the way a cut-out in the metal under the motherboard had |
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rolled edges that curled up toward the motherboard. It was a known |
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defective-by-design situation and later revisions of the case solved |
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the problem. :) I think it was a Thermaltake case if I remember |
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correctly. |