- Joined
- Feb 25, 2009
- Location
- Stephenville, Tx
I was working on my computer a while ago. When I heard a small pop and my computer turned off. I tried restarting it but it wouldn't restarted. I took it over to my table and pulled out the 1st graphic card, cpu heatsink, and cpu. I could smell something like burnt plastic. I was thinking it was maybe the dreaded overvoltage thing that was plaguing the cheaper p55 boards. I run my cpu at a voltage below 1.3 so I was a little confused.
Luckily when I took out the cpu everything looked fine. So then I thought maybe a resistor had blown. I checked the board carefully and nothing looked blown or burnt, but I could still smell the burnt plastic. Next I decided to put everything back and try to get it to start again with only the bare essentials attached. I run crossfire but for this I only had one VGA card plugged into the second pci-express slot. After getting everything hooked up again, I started the computer up. There was another louder pop and a puff of smoke came out of the top most pci-express slot. However the computer booted into Win7 and everything seemed to work fine.
Fearing that the top slot blew out. I decided to check it with the original card that when in that slot. I put it back in and booted the system up and it again booted fine tho I didn't have the second card in. I then decided to try out crossfire and put in the second card. I booted it again and everything worked for about 3 or 4 minutes til it shut down again with no pop this time.
So I guess, what should I do? Can I run my machine safely with just the lower pci-express slot? Obviously I should try to contact ASrock and see if they can help. Any suggestions? Has this happened to anyone?
Luckily when I took out the cpu everything looked fine. So then I thought maybe a resistor had blown. I checked the board carefully and nothing looked blown or burnt, but I could still smell the burnt plastic. Next I decided to put everything back and try to get it to start again with only the bare essentials attached. I run crossfire but for this I only had one VGA card plugged into the second pci-express slot. After getting everything hooked up again, I started the computer up. There was another louder pop and a puff of smoke came out of the top most pci-express slot. However the computer booted into Win7 and everything seemed to work fine.
Fearing that the top slot blew out. I decided to check it with the original card that when in that slot. I put it back in and booted the system up and it again booted fine tho I didn't have the second card in. I then decided to try out crossfire and put in the second card. I booted it again and everything worked for about 3 or 4 minutes til it shut down again with no pop this time.
So I guess, what should I do? Can I run my machine safely with just the lower pci-express slot? Obviously I should try to contact ASrock and see if they can help. Any suggestions? Has this happened to anyone?
