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The quickest way is to connect the motherboard to a power supply, attach video (and video card if there is not one on-board), keyboard, mouse, and memory and turn it on. The screen should show the video subsystem first, then it will either show a system information screen or a pretty logo. You SHOULD get an error that the floppy drive is not working. If so, that means that the motherboard is OK. If you get no video at all, and it has on-board video, check your jumpers to make sure the onboard video is not disabled. If it IS enabled and there is still no picture, just put some butter on it, it is toast! Steve
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∙ 12y agoThe only way to know for sure is to try all the other hardware in another machine or to try running the motherboard with known-good CPU, ram, etc.
However, the caveat is that whatever fried the motherboard may have fried other hardware as well... If you try the CPU in another machine & its bad, it could be bad in addition to the motherboard.
It also depends largely on your symptoms, feel free to post details by using the "discuss" option in the left frame.
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∙ 13y agolights and fans come on but nothing more boots up
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∙ 11y agoDo not worry, buy another computer, when it becomes old. You only will be able to know that if you replace the motherboard for a new one. That's risky.
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