burnUP!

[Guest]

heyguys, here is a silly question....A friend of mine burnt up his AGP port....he knows it is bad, because he boughta cheap PCI card, and got picture.....now all of the sudden he tells me his processor burnt up too...it is an Athlon 800.....is it possible that because of the AGP port burning up, that the processor did not burn up, but is having conflict with the MB??? thanx in advance.

 

[jlanka]

How is he burning these things up?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[Crashman]

It's possible that his motherboard has defective voltage controll for the 3.3v line, burning up video cards and processors.
Oh, it is also possible that these things are happening from a bad power supply or voltage spikes.

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