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- Dec 6, 2004
This was pretty scary, I had just unpacked my mobo, set up the water cooling, and hooked up my new PSU. I plugged it into the mobo except for the 20 pin connector (the 2 cpu 4 pins, and the mystery molex). I paperclipped the 20 pin to get it to start without the motherboard pins, and to my surprise, smoke started pouring out of the case, and I mean a ton of smoke ( I couldn't see). After an astounded 5 seconds or so, I unplugged everything.
I first thought that one of the molex connectors had gotten wet and I had some melted plastic, but everything on my PSU seemed fine. I checked the video card and pump and everything seemed fine there. Finally, I checked the motherboard. Right under the CMOS battery, it was charred. The PCB seems to have burnt off a couple layers and one of the ICs seems to have disintegrated
Obviously some kind of short circuit occurred and this part of the board got a huge current. It's apparent that my board is completely f'ed, but what do you think the chances of my CPU and video card being all right? I don't have any other equipment to test out my stuff, and honestly I don't have the motivation to undo all my watercooling stuff and put everything back on air, right now.
Is now a good time to upgrade? I hear the new AMD cards are coming out soon, but how long until new sockets/cpus are due out?
Evga wont let me RMA the board because I don't have the invoice (it was a birthday gift), so that sucks incredibly hard. What do you guys think?
I first thought that one of the molex connectors had gotten wet and I had some melted plastic, but everything on my PSU seemed fine. I checked the video card and pump and everything seemed fine there. Finally, I checked the motherboard. Right under the CMOS battery, it was charred. The PCB seems to have burnt off a couple layers and one of the ICs seems to have disintegrated
Obviously some kind of short circuit occurred and this part of the board got a huge current. It's apparent that my board is completely f'ed, but what do you think the chances of my CPU and video card being all right? I don't have any other equipment to test out my stuff, and honestly I don't have the motivation to undo all my watercooling stuff and put everything back on air, right now.
Is now a good time to upgrade? I hear the new AMD cards are coming out soon, but how long until new sockets/cpus are due out?
Evga wont let me RMA the board because I don't have the invoice (it was a birthday gift), so that sucks incredibly hard. What do you guys think?
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