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- Dec 4, 2001
Recently I was playing a game when the screen went black and the motherboard started beeping. I opened the case to do some tests. After fiddling with the memory sticks I turned on the system, then a diode near the bottom right corner of the memory slots started smoking and then it exploded and shot across the room in two halves. Is there any way my Antec SmartPower 350W power supply could have anything to do with that? I suspect it is just a defective motherboard, but I don't know for sure. I just want to make sure new motherboard won't get hurt by a bad power supply.