what have i done?

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Mangudai

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i have a barton 3000+/fic au13 board setup that was running fine until i accidently kicked the keyboard plug out the back of the computer then proceeded to mistakenly put it in the mouse port. I realized the keybord being unresponsive and thats whem i realized what i did. The screen proceeded to display millions of whites and red specks all over jumbling around. I turned the computer off and took the plug out then proceeded to try to turn it on several times and only got a long beep. Then after awhile it
 
started to present a long beep and 3 very quick beep. i then changed the keyboard to another then it told me to press f4 for raid setup. i hit esc then post and said my cpu was running to high. when windows loaded i checked the speed and it was running fine. im typing this from my psp, sorry. After i checked the speed i noticed it was finding hardware like a fresh install. Then after a few minutes green and red colors went all over the screen then i turned it off. What have i done?
 
sounds like your vid card is overheating.. open the case and investigate the vid card - maybe the HSF was dislocated when you kicked the case..
 
umm kick and case in same sentence is never good...
Think everyone should take a PC 101 about things to do and not to do around their Computer
:p
 
Sounds to me like you damaged the PS2 port the keyboard was plugged into. If that's the case, you may have accidentally destroyed your mobo. If it was me, I'd take out the MoBo and visually check to see what kind of damage has been done to the connector by making sure all solder points are still in place and there are no cracks in the general vicinity of the connector.

You could also try using a USB keyboard and mouse to try and bypass the PS2 connectors. It could be that only those two interfaces are destroyed and the rest of the MoBo is OK.
 
I appreciate the replies. Let me give you an update. We put another keyboard(the old one is dead) and video card in today and it seems to be working fine now. But last week...a nvidia that use to be in here(before the incident i mentioned earlier happened) but it crapped out....the monitor wasnt picking up a signal when it was plugged in the computer.

Do you think its the motherboard?
 
If its working fine leave it alone. Don't you think you've done enough damage? ;)


Tech calls like this used to make me cringe, you oughta know before you even BUY a computer, that you don't go pluggin shit in when its on, except for USB items. Sheeesh.


Not as bad as the computer knocked off the desk and onto the concrete floor though, slaughtering 4 15K SCSI harddrives. that one made me cry.
 
plugging in ps2 port keyboards in and out while a PC is on is no problem at all. Neither is putting them into the wrong ports.

The problem definitely sounds like a graphics card issue, as someone mentioned, that problably got caused when the case was kicked.

Personally I'd re-seat the heatsink with fresh paste on both the cpu and graphics card.
 
Yea, I didnt think it was an issue as I thought there were...what the term..hot swapable? My brother is afraid to turn the computer off now so we just leave it on. We're hoping it'll last till january, when he can build another one. The thing is, I didnt kick the case, I just kicked the cord out of the keyboard slot on the motherboard. The reason I was wondering if it was graphics related was because a week before this another video card went bad.
 
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