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DustyCap

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Mobo: Gigabyte z97-UD3H-BK

So I just finished my first build 3 days ago and everything was going swell. Approximately 56 hours after I got the machine to POST I glanced into my lit up Phanteks Enthroo Luxe and noticed that there was a new light source in my case. My motherboard had a red hot vertical line running almost the entire length of the left side of the board. I immediately shut down the machine and the line faded. Thinking that I'd somehow fried a circuit on my motherboard, I immediately got on my phone and began google searching for glowing hot motherboard lines etc. After 30 heart pounding minutes of research, I found this:

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(click here then ctrl+f for "trace")

As it turns out, my motherboard is supposed to light up like this. For the life of me I can't figure out why. If someone could explain it to me, that would be awesome. If not, then I hope you all get a laugh from my terror.
 
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someguynamedmatt
Hah - yep, I can see how you'd think that. I'm sure you'd smell burning soldermask (and PCB, for that matter) if you ever manage to heat something up to that extent. If I'm understanding things correctly, the 'path lighting' is actually just an LED on the underside of the motherboard which is visible through a break in the copper planes used to isolate your audio circuitry from the rest of the board's digital noise.

For a more immediate 'oh ****' factor, I once dropped a Pentium III system down two flights of stairs. Not on purpose, mind you. It didn't have a side panel after that one, but the whole thing still picked right back up and kept trucking, hard drive and everything. It's always fun to see just how much physical abuse a...
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Hah - yep, I can see how you'd think that. I'm sure you'd smell burning soldermask (and PCB, for that matter) if you ever manage to heat something up to that extent. If I'm understanding things correctly, the 'path lighting' is actually just an LED on the underside of the motherboard which is visible through a break in the copper planes used to isolate your audio circuitry from the rest of the board's digital noise.

For a more immediate 'oh ****' factor, I once dropped a Pentium III system down two flights of stairs. Not on purpose, mind you. It didn't have a side panel after that one, but the whole thing still picked right back up and kept trucking, hard drive and everything. It's always fun to see just how much physical abuse a system will manage to survive, intentional or otherwise.

:)
 
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