hey
Just finished picking bits of molten plastic off the inside of my case following what looks like a voltage regulator exploding on my Abit ZM6 motherboard. This also appears to have killed my V3-2000, and I'm hoping it hasn't killed my celeryII 533. Halfway through a boot, I heard a loud pop, and the machine just stopped - went dead. Now, the PS still works, and as far as I can tell every component apart from the ones above still works too (not sure about the CPU, since my other machine is a K6-2 605, and I can;t test the celery in that). The board's out of warranty now, so I've had to splash out on a new one (BX-133 RAID
), but I'd still like to know what would've caused this...
cheers
tweakr
Just finished picking bits of molten plastic off the inside of my case following what looks like a voltage regulator exploding on my Abit ZM6 motherboard. This also appears to have killed my V3-2000, and I'm hoping it hasn't killed my celeryII 533. Halfway through a boot, I heard a loud pop, and the machine just stopped - went dead. Now, the PS still works, and as far as I can tell every component apart from the ones above still works too (not sure about the CPU, since my other machine is a K6-2 605, and I can;t test the celery in that). The board's out of warranty now, so I've had to splash out on a new one (BX-133 RAID
cheers
tweakr