A4000T Cyberstorm only working when pressed down every so often

[Rigger]

Go down to your local hardware store (take to Cyberstorm with you) and go to the loose nuts, bolts and spacers bin. Find set [color=FF0000]nylon[/color] bolts and spacers. Get varing thicknesses of spacers so you can build a standoff pin to with-in 1mm or 2mm from the board when it is seated. Then you can "bolt" the card into place. I'll post a couple pictures up after I get home from work. Only the holes near the card connector need to be done like this and the holes at the back of the card can use the standard standoff pins.

For me this was more preventative than to fix and actual problem. I just didn't like the supplied standoff pegs. They seemed to be to long and trying to push the board out of the slot.

[Rigger]

OK, posted the pictures of my setup to the Image-o-Matic here but I guess one of the webmasters needs to approve them before they are available.

Knock, knock.... Hellooooooo. Mr. Moderator? Are you in there? hehe.....

Image-o-Matic A4000 section.

[Rigger]

You asked this question at the perfect time. My A4000 motherboard just happened to be out so I could do some modifications to the case and I could get those pictures. :-)

[Rigger]

Fantastic. Apparently the height being different is common. I had to make the spacer at the sim end shorter also.

[Rigger]

Hmm, check that the ROM chips are fully seated. A light gray screen should mean that the hardware checked ok and the next this the system will check is the ROM. I know if the ROM fails the test then you get a red screen but it may not even move to ROM if it cannot find it due to poor seating.

Just a guess at this point but sounds like it can't hurt.