Can the motherboard repair itself? Or should I be worried?

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This is the whole story. I left my three-year-old granddaughter and one-and-a-half year old nephew alone with the computer for five minutes, fooling around, and when I got back I found it was off. I tried opening it; nothing. I tried to figure out the problem and found a dime on the motherboard (technically it's not a dime since it's euro currency, more like 10 cents in a euro). Basically what happened, they were fighting over the mouse and the coins fell. I tried turning it on again and the fan was spinning at full speed as it did on startup, but the monitor didn't turn on, the fan kept spinning. .

I'm actually worried about preparing myself to buy another Biostar A68N-5600 motherboard (which is the current one I'm using), hoping that if Windows 8.1 doesn't have issues, everything will be fine.

I still have to know where the problem is: is the motherboard or other hardware (hard drive, RAM, USB peripherals, etc.) connected to it, preventing it from working. So when I was looking for a new motherboard, I disconnected the audio interface (Focusrite Scarlett Solo 2nd Gen) and connected it to the laptop. And the audio interface doesn't work either (no LED lights up).

I tried turning on the Biostar board again and it worked fine . So my audio interface is damaged and if it doesn't work due to a manufacturing fault, Focusrite will repair or replace it. But in fact, it's not.

I was wondering why the audio interface didn't turn off my laptop or something (because it blocked my Biostar mother A68N-5600. Guess what!? It was working fine. So I checked everything else. Windows showed 8GB RAM), every HDD works fine, as does bluetooth, wifi and every peripheral connected to usb.

Here's why I'm here : Should I be worried? Is there any error waiting to happen? Can a computer repair itself? By the way, the motherboard has "super surge protection", could that be the reason why the computer or any of its components and peripherals don't have problems?

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No, hardware usually doesn't "fix" it on its own. However, it may go into an indeterminate or "blocking" state due to a short circuit. That's why a total power outage can sometimes help.

In your case, the audio device may have blown up and prevented the motherboard from booting. Your laptop probably has a better USB port.

Anti-surge protection generally only applies to external ports (USB ports, audio, networking, etc.) that can be "damaged" by electrostatic discharge or lightning; it doesn't prevent coins from falling inside a computer case.

Either way, your motherboard is probably fine, or it still won't work next week. Hard to say.

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