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Hello all. I was.... Fixing (ya that was it) my computer and it bit me. Really.

I think I have a short somewhere. Is there any way to tell what could be causing it without ripping everything apart? What are the usual suspects if a short?
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Most common short is a screw lodged behind the mb.
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What are the usual suspects if a short?

electricity

just rip everything out, why bother risking hardware for the sake of an hour spent looking for the problem ?
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yeah take everything out and examine. once some of my as5 somehow got behind the mobo...its conductive, and yeah it shorted...but i was hella lucky it damaged only two capacitors; nothing a few spare caps couldnt fix
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could just be a pin was exposed and touched the case...I did that once and fried my HDD. take it all apart.
Apart it goes. Thanks guys for the fast rep.
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