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Hey bird sorry for the delayed response as I've spent the last few days rebuilding my machine.
Great call on the screw - I didn't have any loose screws flying around in the case but it sparked my interest so I dismanteled everything and left the motherboard on a cardboard box.
I setup the motherboard and the powersupply and the thing ran beautifully so I was estatic because I just paid 200dollars for the board and I hoped it was still alive. Anyway after a longer test I found out after 5-8 seconds it would power itself down so I'm assuming I fried it. I reinstalled everything one by one to find out where it got shorted at and the board has 2 washer like circles that are built onto the motherboard (I forget their technical name) to protect from this sort of thing... the O looking guys :)... anyway the ASUS board I bought has a double ring similar to a venn diagram OO so when I placed the screw in the middle (which I usually use plastic stands, damn my luck!!) it shorted the board out... after much testing I finally narrowed it down to that one goddamn screw.
Anyway I blew the board so hopefully I can get a replacement and convince them the board was defective or something. Meanwhile I tried my old motherboard which has diseased in my cubbord as well :) so I had to go out and buy another 200$ board - this time an MSI and everything worked perfectly. I even bought an anti-static wristband attachment - I'm forever paranoid after this incident about electrical damage of all kinds :).
Thanks again for your help and sparking my interest to investigate further with the question about wheather I had a loose screw flying around or not.
Take care,
another computer part bites the dust.
-Collin
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