Best way to ruin a motherboard?

[Hunston]

I've just found an old 486 motherboard and I'm feeling in a destructive mood. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

What's the best way to (safely) smoke it without resorting to a hammer and chisel?

Oh and there's an ATX PSU thats looking at me funny as well.

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[Wilan Wong]

You could always light a match, make it a hot dinner.. maybe you could use it to cook something?? (probably stinks.. most likely would!)

[Hunston]

No, I'd rather do it stealthily rather than blatantly.

Is there anyway to wreck one without making it obvious?

[krusty the klown]

Hmmm... a good jolt of static electricity to the BIOS chip should do the trick. Those piezo-electric gas igniters will give a few kV, but better still, an 80kV stun gun or a professional insulation tester (these are good fun http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif)

EDIT: a home-made high voltage generator can be constructed quite easily (double the fun).

I made one from a battery, a transformer, a diode, a relay, a motorbike ignition coil and a condensor. (misguided childhood, you see http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif)

Mine generated an estimated 80+ kV (judging by the length of the spark and assuming air has a dielectric strength of 20 kV/cm).

Pratting around with these voltages is not too clever and I've known of people that have been killed by car ignition voltages, so don't do it kiddies.

[This message has been edited by krusty the klown (edited 02-22-2001).]

[Hunston]

"Hmmm... a good jolt of static electricity to the BIOS chip should do the trick. Those piezo-electric gas igniters will give a few kV"

Now that's more like it! So what do I do? Pull the chip out and give it a few 'clicks'??

Any inventive ways of wrecking an mATX PSU. Need something more inventive than a bucket of water!

I'm not this destructive most of the time. Don't worry! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Wiruz]

Does it fit inside a microwave oven? A friend and me once toasted a P-II 400 (fully functional) like that - we put it in a glass of water and gave it a few seconds at max power... oh yeah - it wasn't our chip...

~Wiruz, The Somewhat Destructive Digital Hippie

[krusty the klown]

Just standing on a nylon carpet, wearing plastic-soled shoes and pulling the BIOS chip may be enough, but to make sure, pull the chip and give the pins a good zapping.

You could also try downloading the BIOS flash upgrade utility and pulling the plug (mains power) halfway through erasing the BIOS - they don't like having half a BIOS!!!

Sprinkle iron filings on the motherboard whilst it's powered up.... this may leave burn marks though. Perhaps a little water to help things along?

Swap a few of the power leads to the motherboard (this may well knacker the power supply, too). See how it gets on with +12V when it's only expecting +5.

Trouble with switch-mode power supplies is that they tend to 'stall' if you draw too much current, so you may have a job overloading the thing - transformer-based ones are far easier to overload.

Do you have a shotgun?

[Szech]

I'm a fan of catapults and slingshots myself. Plus, I used to live by the train tracks http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif.

[spuck]

want to borrow my welder.just dont look at the light!

[Mykex]

Gee I've got a bottle of PCB etching solution and a squirt-gun.

Are there any posibilitys of overclocking????Maybe push it to where it wont fully post and restarts before its done with startup? That would be fun you could start a pool on when it frys. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[CMonster]

3 seconds on HI in a microwave oven

[Rat]

wanna fry the psu..... run 110v thru the 12v or 5v side. wanna kill everything else, run 110v thru the board.

rat...

[UltraGeek]

have a look at the experts, http://www.massacre.org.uk

[MiKe85]

Some interesting responses http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Does it fit inside a microwave oven? A friend and me once toasted a P-II 400 (fully functional) like that - we put it in a glass of water and gave it a few seconds at max power... oh yeah - it wasn't our chip...
Wiruz: Your such a nice person http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

wanna fry the psu..... run 110v thru the 12v or 5v side. wanna kill everything else, run 110v thru the board.
Nice http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif


Mike