so I was taking my pc apart for christmas to put in a new cpu and mobo. however when I took the whole thing apart I realised I got scammed for the cpu. realising this I started to put my pc back together and wait for a refund to get a new cpu. I put it back together and upon starting up it was extremely slow, like took 5-10 mins just to switch. then when it came on it would work for a few minutes then Windows would crash and my screen would freeze. I switched off my pc and checked all the connections weren't loose then tried again but it kept happening. I eventually got a message upon start up saying disk read error occurred. so I took out my hard drives and put them back in. this time it started but Windows crashed again. I tried one more time but left the side panel off and watched it as it switched on. while starting there was a burning smell coming from the pc and when I looked at it a puff of smoke came from arou d where the ram is. any ideas what caused it and what the damage might be?
motherboard blew up
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What you describe sounds like a short circuit. Damage could include a number of parts, the puff of smoke indicates that it was near the memory, so at least one stick could be bad, but the board could also be damaged.
I would pull all parts out and examine them closely for burned looking areas on either side and then rebuild it on a sheet of cardboard on top of your desk with a minimum number of parts (like one stick of memory, one drive, and onboard graphics if supported).
Anything that has obvious burn marks is likely toast though. Beyond just the board look at the individual chips on the memory and board for small bubbled areas (kind of a cobblestone look), which indicates that chip is shot.
I would pull all parts out and examine them closely for burned looking areas on either side and then rebuild it on a sheet of cardboard on top of your desk with a minimum number of parts (like one stick of memory, one drive, and onboard graphics if supported).
Anything that has obvious burn marks is likely toast though. Beyond just the board look at the individual chips on the memory and board for small bubbled areas (kind of a cobblestone look), which indicates that chip is shot.
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