I don;t think I understand - this cable in the pic in the pic I provided comes from the case and attaches to the MB in the third pic. I think what happened was that I connected it backwards though, and that's why it was smoking.
Sure, here you go: thanks for all the help everyone. I already put some electrical tape on the burnt sections of the cord (there were 3).
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Ok, new info - I just started to take it apart to see if I could find anything that looked weird, and the largest system panel connector (the 4 pin one) was a little bit melted on the bottom, and the cable had split/melted in 2 places as well. It's the one that says something like +5V, D-, D+...
That's kind of what I was wondering, but would one of those little pin connectors cause it to overheat and smoke within 2 minutes? I will recheck them though before I try again.
Would it be possible that I put the plugs in backwords? There is a positive/neg for each plug and it is very...
Thanks for the input everyone, I did check it again very briefly this morning, because the PSU didn't smell at all, so I was curious. I unplugged all non-essentials from the PSU and turned it on with my finger on the PSU kill switch. After about 45 seconds it did start smoking again, but...
At this point I'm thinking that it's the PSU - but do you guys think that I have damaged anything else at this point? It was running for about a minute - maybe two before the smoke showed up.
Hi everyone, I have a question for the experts out there. I have done about 4-5 computer builds in the past, and all of them have went without any major problems, but this one that I tried last night didnt go so well.
Here is the component list to start brand new build, nothing from other...
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