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chipjon   07-11-2008 at 07:55:23 PM

I put together a new tower. I have an Asus M3A-H w/ AMD 5000+ black edition. I conected an ATI 3850 pci-e card. I turned the system on and it posted to bios. I exited the bios and when i went to turn it back on my video card pce-e conector started somkeing causing my card to no longer work. this board use's the 780G chipset so it does have on board graphics. powersuply is an Antec Truepower 2.0 430 watt.
I'm affraid to put another graphics card in at this time. if my power supply was not powerful enough could this cause the problem? or something else?




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BustedSony   07-11-2008 at 08:12:53 PM
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chipjon wrote :

I put together a new tower. I have an Asus M3A-H w/ AMD 5000+ black edition. I conected an ATI 3850 pci-e card. I turned the system on and it posted to bios. I exited the bios and when i went to turn it back on my video card pce-e conector started somkeing causing my card to no longer work. this board use's the 780G chipset so it does have on board graphics. powersuply is an Antec Truepower 2.0 430 watt.
I'm affraid to put another graphics card in at this time. if my power supply was not powerful enough could this cause the problem? or something else?




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The smoking was caused by the connector not being on tight enough. Any resistance at the contact causes heating and eventually arcing. Clean the contacts, put on a tiny spot of vaseline, make sure the connector is snapped on FIRMLY! and try again.

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chipjon   07-11-2008 at 08:33:04 PM
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thanks, i RMA'd the card. waiting on new on or same one back lol. will try that though.

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royalcrown   07-14-2008 at 03:36:03 PM
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I would think it depends on how much smoke. Coulda been a good ol short too. Wow, that'd freak me out chipjon, i guess get an extinguisher for when you game !

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jimmysmitty   07-14-2008 at 11:16:23 PM
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A PC enthusiats worst enemy.... The smell of burning plastic.......

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