99% - of all ESD is from a human.
89% - of that is from human not being grounded to the casing or the chip.
50% - of that is from the human not following BASIC ESD PRECATIONS.
the other 50% - of the 89% is from the human not using ESD PRECATIONS correctly.
the only sure way not to have ESD...
I have just replaced a mobo for the same issue...
What I tried:
Removed EVERYTHING (including processor)...
Reset CMOS (it had a 'reset cmos' button)
Reinstalled the processor and 1 stick of memory and the AGP Vid card = nothing else.
Reboot - post up shows vid/mem/hdd's and then...
Resetting BIOS may not 'seem' to help as some BIOS set PCI as the Vid instead of the AGP... (which seems somewhat ignorant to me, it should actually cause it to search for 'available' upon reboot and cause it to become default).
I ran into a simular issue with a mobo I just purchased... seems...
Ok, this board your talking about... A freind of mine has researched it to death because he wants it.. and he's somewhat anal about knowing what he's getting...
The AGP 8x on that board is Shared on the PCI-e - they cannot be run at the same time due to this... it's either AGP or PCI-e on...
Have you thought about may 'upgrading' the Vid Card itself... that Rage is a pretty sad card at best (and yes I have the right to say that as my old Rage II is sitting on my desk above my monitor)...
You may find that a $20 Geforce 2 will solve this issue...
My Dual PIII (slot 1) died a horrible PCI bus burn.... SO, I had all this hardware:
2x PIII @ 800 CPU's
2x 128 Rdram
2x Rdram fillers (what they are called is failing me at the moment)
A bunch of Hard Drives ...
4 PSU's
And not a working mobo in the house.
So I Ebay'd and found this...
Check the plumbing section - they make a stainless steel 'ring' for running pipes thru walls, you could 'create' a grommet from that??
just my thoughts.
Let me look about a bit, as I used to work at a place that had white ink (to print for transfer to green coffee cups) = I'll get back to you soon.
The ALPS MD-series printers can indeed print with white ink. The place I've found this most useful is when reverse-printing on transparent window...
Yeah, and found many, but the way that this board failed worries me, I want to 'stay old school', but with reliability.. I've read a few 'reviews' now and the OR840 seems to be stable as a stone... and can use a standard P4 PSU... (which I have a new 400W A Power 2.01 P4 Ready PSU)...
I have...