Heya guys,
I just recently upgraded (if you can call it that) from, the
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-D3 Motherboard
to the
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
Simply because I was experiencing some issues with my older board. I had to got the board today and fully cleaned out and removed all the bits and pieces from my PC, I then setup the MB like normal and plugged everything else in the same as I have done before, countless times. Everything went smooth with the install. The I took it back to my room, plugged all my cables in and did my first boot up with the new MB.
As soon as it turned on, straight from the top of the MB came what I thought at the time was dust but it was smoke, I immediately smelt it and switched my PC off. I thought it was the Processor as I wasn't sure if I put the right amount of Thermal Paste on and was sitting bricks... On closer inspection, a small area near the edge of the MB above the CPU had fried and all along the top of the board just above the ram had friend...
What could have caused this? I put my old MB back in and did all the same steps again, turned it on and everything worked like normal.... No other fried parts or damages on the bootup... I am scratching my head and honestly a little pissed off about the whole thing.
I just recently upgraded (if you can call it that) from, the
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-D3 Motherboard
to the
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
Simply because I was experiencing some issues with my older board. I had to got the board today and fully cleaned out and removed all the bits and pieces from my PC, I then setup the MB like normal and plugged everything else in the same as I have done before, countless times. Everything went smooth with the install. The I took it back to my room, plugged all my cables in and did my first boot up with the new MB.
As soon as it turned on, straight from the top of the MB came what I thought at the time was dust but it was smoke, I immediately smelt it and switched my PC off. I thought it was the Processor as I wasn't sure if I put the right amount of Thermal Paste on and was sitting bricks... On closer inspection, a small area near the edge of the MB above the CPU had fried and all along the top of the board just above the ram had friend...
What could have caused this? I put my old MB back in and did all the same steps again, turned it on and everything worked like normal.... No other fried parts or damages on the bootup... I am scratching my head and honestly a little pissed off about the whole thing.
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