Ok, to put things in perspective I had my entire pc immersed in mineral oil for well over a year, I'm sure that has something to do with it.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/...orse-Laxative-4-5Ghz?highlight=horse+laxative
The computer only caught on fire when I it was outside of the mineral oil when I was testing it for repairs.
So I had some computer problems earlier.
I had noticed one night when I put my computer into sleep mode, the computer tried to start itself back up again, would kick on and spin fans for 3 to 5 seconds and then restart itself, fan spins for 3-5 seconds again, rinse and repeat...
So I had just unplugged my pc and went to sleep. The next day it started up fine, no problems whatsoever... After roughly 2 hours of gaming I had a hard crash. Couldn't altcntdel, couldn't move my mouse, nothing.. I had to do a hard reset of my pc, and when I did it would get caught in this bootloop again were it would start up and fans would spin and then restart a few seconds latter over and over again. This time, I couldn't get my pc to boot at all.
My first thought was the problem had something to do with ram, because I had just installed some old ddr3 ram sticks in the empty ram slots I had on my motherboard. It had worked fine for a couple days with the new ram. I tried a few things to get my pc to work again, like removing all ramsticks except one, removing my graphic card, plugged in and out the power connections going into my motherboard.
Removing all ram sticks except one seemed to work. The fans would spin, and kept going for several minutes until I shut it down. The only thing odd was the digital display on my motherboard displayed the letters "LP" (Asrock Z77 extreme 6)
I tried installing another ram stick, but had the same boot loop problem.
I then removed that ram stick again.
I then tested to see if my computer would run, or go back into bootloop again.
It caught on fire! I've been messing around with PC's for well over a decade, and have never had one catch on fire before.
First was the smell of melting electronics, then a couple seconds latter I noticed flames. I quickly shut down the pc and unplugged my power supply from the wall.
The fire was located were the powersupply cords plug into the motherboard. (The biggest cable connector on the powersupply)
What do you guys think was the culprit? Bad power supply, or bad motherboard?
There's no noticeable damage to the motherboard that I could see... Do you think I could salvage it and just try a new powersupply?
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/...orse-Laxative-4-5Ghz?highlight=horse+laxative
The computer only caught on fire when I it was outside of the mineral oil when I was testing it for repairs.
So I had some computer problems earlier.
I had noticed one night when I put my computer into sleep mode, the computer tried to start itself back up again, would kick on and spin fans for 3 to 5 seconds and then restart itself, fan spins for 3-5 seconds again, rinse and repeat...
So I had just unplugged my pc and went to sleep. The next day it started up fine, no problems whatsoever... After roughly 2 hours of gaming I had a hard crash. Couldn't altcntdel, couldn't move my mouse, nothing.. I had to do a hard reset of my pc, and when I did it would get caught in this bootloop again were it would start up and fans would spin and then restart a few seconds latter over and over again. This time, I couldn't get my pc to boot at all.
My first thought was the problem had something to do with ram, because I had just installed some old ddr3 ram sticks in the empty ram slots I had on my motherboard. It had worked fine for a couple days with the new ram. I tried a few things to get my pc to work again, like removing all ramsticks except one, removing my graphic card, plugged in and out the power connections going into my motherboard.
Removing all ram sticks except one seemed to work. The fans would spin, and kept going for several minutes until I shut it down. The only thing odd was the digital display on my motherboard displayed the letters "LP" (Asrock Z77 extreme 6)
I tried installing another ram stick, but had the same boot loop problem.
I then removed that ram stick again.
I then tested to see if my computer would run, or go back into bootloop again.
It caught on fire! I've been messing around with PC's for well over a decade, and have never had one catch on fire before.
First was the smell of melting electronics, then a couple seconds latter I noticed flames. I quickly shut down the pc and unplugged my power supply from the wall.
The fire was located were the powersupply cords plug into the motherboard. (The biggest cable connector on the powersupply)
What do you guys think was the culprit? Bad power supply, or bad motherboard?
There's no noticeable damage to the motherboard that I could see... Do you think I could salvage it and just try a new powersupply?