Well, I just popped my motherboard. Installed it into my spiffy new case, hit the power button, and POP... instant smell of burning electricals. :angry:


Doesn't look salvageable. Burned clear through the board, and it looks like it severed a couple connections.

 

howd'ja do that?

 

I had a brand new Dell Dimension 4550's power supply blow up after it's first 2 minutes of run time.

 

Sucks for you and the MB





my dell's P/S went to crap. then the computer started dying... MB was failing. not even two years old.

oh well, i have a new pretty case, a nice new skyhawk 400w power supply, a nice new Abit TH7- RAID MB... and my computer looks pimping now. Good news is 423 pin MB's are really cheap now a days








I'm a computer ricer

 

shit I read about this in Maximum PC

look at the capacitors of the motherboard if it looks like one of them is warped, then sorry, you'll have to go back to the Makers

Apparently earlier this year a production of capacitors was shipped to various Mobo Makers, those caps. were made with bad electrolyte, so even if the mobo is new, it could still fail

the main probelm was, it was not tracked by the Cap. Makers, nor by the Mobo Makers, so they really cant put out a recall... just a warning, and they'll replace bad ones, but this could be a probelm for a long time

 

Nah, it's a 2 year old MB. I'm not exactly sure what caused it, but ASUS has a 3 year warranty. :thumbup:


It's just a pain... and there's really no way to tell if the CPU is still good w/o a good board. :sad:

 

oh man ... that's not good ... i've blown many drives after just plugging them into the PS.