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Who has burned out a motherboard when building a new PC?

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August 10, 2006 9:33:09 PM

I know most people have at least done this at some point in their life if you have built a lot of PCs. I remember building one and plugged the power supply in wrong. Got a nice little puff of white smoke. That will teach me to work in the middle of the night after a long day.

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August 12, 2006 11:18:38 AM

Didn't burn one out, but my first ATX system I think I shorted out the PS/2 keyboard connection. :oops: 
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August 12, 2006 12:16:58 PM

Well, in 16 years and over 50 builds, had a 1 or 2 DOA, but I've never damaged or "burnt" anything that I remember.
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August 12, 2006 12:42:36 PM

When I built my latest system with an ASUS A8N-E motherboard the smoke came out on initial power up. The CPU fan controller smoked bad. I used a LED fan on the Thermaltake big typhoon cooler and it had a short to grund. The motherboard still works but the CPU fan is plugged straight into the power supply so it runs at 100%. Seeing that smoke really sucked!!!! GRRRRRRR.
August 12, 2006 3:16:26 PM

Closest thing happened to me was on my old athlon slot-a 500mhz.
installed a dimm and when I turned it on it arced across the dimm.
Fried the board and of course I didnt try that dimm again.
August 12, 2006 4:17:33 PM

I've built some 30+ systems starting with 286 on up and never fried a mobo BUT I had a freaky occurance a few years ago with a Belkin 4-port KVM ... top of their line with audio and USB in addition to KVM. Fired up the system one Saturday morning (several months after initial install) and the SOB began smoking right there on my desktop! It fried itself, my MSI mobo, Diamond vid card, SoundBlaster, Adaptec SCSI tape controller, and Fax-modem card. The AMD CPU and Micron memory survived, along with the Antec PSU and case, but all else croaked-fried ... even da' friggin' Logitech trackball!. Upon opening up the Belkin KVM it was obvious that one of the push-button switches had shorted the audio to another contact (don't know which one, but so what? Da' sucker was croaked!)

I've also had (3) MSI mobo's fry their northbridge chips ... failed fans, so since the 3rd "incident" I've used Gigabyte and Asus mobos with no problems whatsoever ... tickled me to read that Asus bought Gigabyte the other day, now that I think is a great combo that bodes well for future designs :D 
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