hi i just recently changed my mother board from a gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R to GA-EP31-DS3L because of physical damage to the motherboard(the pins in the cpu socket bent and the warranty doesnt cover it). Although on the Ep35 everything went on and worked.Since i changed the mother board its not been the same the hard drive and the dvd drive/writter have not come on.I have not changed the power supply and the previous board Ep 35 was more power consuming ( i think).I have also tried diffrent psu's (although they were all 400w and bellow which is not good enough.300w is the least the board can take safely) could i have damaged the dvd writer and hard drive?
i have already tried removing the battery and everything else is on and working properly the cpu fan, system fan, graphics card,lan card,processor and mother card
E8400 Core 2 duo Aztec cooler GA-EP31-DS3L 8600 gt 750w ez cool and 400w s-tek psu
You do realise you can fix bent pins in the socket with a mechanical pencil and some care?
Using bad PSUs like you're currently doing could easily damage any hardware. EZ Cool are a terrible PSU manufacturer as well, and their 750w units usually crap out after 150W. Get a proper PSU like the Corsair HX 520W before you do anything else.
As for them being damaged, it's possible, perhaps unlikely, but to avoid it happening again, by a decent PSU, and I genuinely mean this, cheap PSUs like EZCool or S-Tek can not only damage components, they can catch fire. Don't think it doesn't happen, it happened to me, and a hard disk (and all its data) was one of the things I lost as a result.
