I recently installed a new hard drive (WD 3TB Green) and upon reboot the motherboard made a loud pop and I smelled smoke. I took it apart and found the problem underneath the North Bridge. One of the small square integrated circuits had blown. What could have caused this and what have I done wrong? Worked fine before I installed the new drive.
MSI Z87 mpower
Intel 4770K Haswell i5 w/ stock fan
8GB DDR3 1866 ram
GeForce GTX NVIDIA 780
Thermaltake 1000 Watt PSU
1 Asus bluray read/write drive
1 SSD Samsung 256gb
2 WD intellipower green 3TB
1 WD intellipower red 3TB
1 WD 7200rpm black 1TB
1 Seagate 7200rpm Barracuda 3TB
2 200 mm fans
2 120 mm fans
3 140 mm fans
I can't help but wonder if the PSU isn't big enough to handle that many drives and fans on top of that video card. Maybe I didn't have good connections (although on inspection I saw no cabling issues). Maybe the bridge built in thermal paste was bad?
Also, when I did turn it on and flipped the psu switch, the led lights came on but the bottom red and blue led lights flashed on and back off really quick. Never saw that before and I can't find what that means whilst searching google.
Any thoughts?
MSI Z87 mpower
Intel 4770K Haswell i5 w/ stock fan
8GB DDR3 1866 ram
GeForce GTX NVIDIA 780
Thermaltake 1000 Watt PSU
1 Asus bluray read/write drive
1 SSD Samsung 256gb
2 WD intellipower green 3TB
1 WD intellipower red 3TB
1 WD 7200rpm black 1TB
1 Seagate 7200rpm Barracuda 3TB
2 200 mm fans
2 120 mm fans
3 140 mm fans
I can't help but wonder if the PSU isn't big enough to handle that many drives and fans on top of that video card. Maybe I didn't have good connections (although on inspection I saw no cabling issues). Maybe the bridge built in thermal paste was bad?
Also, when I did turn it on and flipped the psu switch, the led lights came on but the bottom red and blue led lights flashed on and back off really quick. Never saw that before and I can't find what that means whilst searching google.
Any thoughts?
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