When handling the motherboard etc, you have to earth yourself. What is suitable to use to do this?
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It meant the same thing as grounding yourself.  Your body is like a live battery and it can store charges (like a capacitor).  This charge caused static when you are in contact with espcially electronic devices like motherboard. The static discharging can reach a few thousand volts and could well destroy or burn small chipsets inside a motherboard, and rendered it useless.  \n\nYou should wear an antistatic wrist strap while handing PC boards.  This wrist strap will 'eat' the static charge in your body and discharge any static on the PC board.  It sells for about $2 at fry's electronic.\n\ngood luck
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Ground yourself properly !
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If this is a computer at work, don't mess with your BIOS.  You could get fired.
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You will probably need to purchase an extra IDE controller.  You can find them cheap online at sites like TigerDirect or NewEgg.\n\nMake sure to get one with it's own BIOS.  It will cost a little more than the non-BIOS ones, but will save you $$ versus buying a new PC.
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go into the bios and disable it
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See Resources below\n\n***WARNING: When working with power supplies, be sure to read up on power supply safety.  It is quite dangerous (possibly FATAL) to work on power supplies if you do NOT have knowledge about how to SAFELY work with power supplies***
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There is a little wire that goes from the back of your CD drive to your motherboard. Make sure this is not loose.
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threaten to call its motherboard
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usually not, it has to be done in the bios window at power on\n\nthere may be some way of doing it, but it needs to be a special application from your motherboard manufacturer if it is, i'm not aware of any such things
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A sledge hammer works extremely well. Just make sure your system is unplugged first.
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For working on your PC they really aren't necessary... If u were actually assembling a board then u would want to use one... Make your own with a piece of copper wire around wrist attached to a wire then attached to a ground....
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It's very dangerous if you don,t know wath you do. You need to  go on your bios to upgrade it. But make sure is that you realy need. If there is a pan of electricity in the time you do it, you will need another pc with the same chipset to arrange that.
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1.  Find the manual for your motherboard or Find out the maufacturer and modelname of your motherboard, then go to there website and find the manual.\n\n2.  Open your computer case.\n\n3.  Change the jumper settings for your situation.\n\n4.  If possible please give us more info to help you better.\n\n5.  Let us know how it went
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use any motherboard you like
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Not worth the trouble.  I would rather just buy a new motherboard than hunt down an AGP slot and solder it onto the board which may or may not work.  The AGP slot is sold with the motherboard and isn't mean't to be taken off so I'm not sure how they could have sold it to you like that in the first place.  Apparently you must have integrated onboard video as well since you can get into the BIOS.  If so, you might as well play it safe and stick with what works.  If you do plan to put an AGP slot on the board, be careful with it.  A bad solder job can short your system and all attached components.  If you're willing to take the risk it's a good learning experience, but if you just want to get your PC back up then I would just get a new board entirely.
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Yes, power supply is what you call the "box".  They are highly interchangeable between computers.  As far as difficulty, I think they're the worst thing short of (sometimes maybe even in front of) a CPU to change.  There's just one heck of a lot of little cables and its a nuisance to figure out where they all go.  I would recommend that you get someone certified to do it.  \nIf your warranty's expired (you'll void it if you aren't certified and go into the case) and you try to do it yourself on limited knowledge, you may not find it to be difficult, but if you end up with some little kink, it'll be difficult for you to trace down what you did wrong.  \n1) Essentially, you'll have to unplug both power supplies from AC (the wall outlet).\n2) Open the case and unplug both power supplies from everything they are connected to inside the case - they will have cables linking up to almost every other piece of hardware in your case.\n3) Unscrew both power supplies from the case.  You can now remove the organ.\n4) Swap the power supplies and do the opposite of 3, 2, then 1.\nHitches:\nThe plugs are usually keyed so that you physically cannot insert them backward or anything.  You can fry components if you still manage to hook things up incorrectly.  And between the two different motherboards, you might not hook the same cables in the same places.  If you do not make a good note of where you unpugged from, it might be difficult for you to figure out what to plug back in and where to plug it.  Having the plans to your motherboards wouldn't hurt you.  You can find those online if you don't have them.
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Usually have to reset the bios.  It's best to get a motherboard manual and see what's recommended, but the basics are: \n - pull the power cord and/or main battery (if it's a laptop), \n - pull the lithium battery (usually a flat silver one on the motherboard), \n - then apply the reset jumper on the motherboard.  \nThis last one is the tricky part as you have to know where it is on the MB and they all differ.  THIS WILL RESET ALL PARAMETERS ON THE BIOS, so you have to know what they are when the thing comes back up to put them back in.  If you have a standard motherboard (ex: Asus) then you can usually find that info on their website.\nIf this sounds scary, most computer stores can do it for you.