- Feb 22, 2005
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Was working on the machine this morning, not doing anything more than checking email. Started smelling something faint, then it got stronger, then my box locked up. I hit reset, and was greeted by a puff of smoke, and a flash of fire near the bottom of my case (below the vid card and above the bottom of the board). Shut it down hard and yanked the power cord. It stopped pretty quickly, but I know the board is fried.
Damned thing is barely a year old, and I thought Gigabyte was supposed to be all awesome with solid caps that lasted longer. Now I have to either wait for a RMA replacement, or spend money on a new board (which I may do anyways and then ebay the replacement).
Luckily I have other computers to use....shall I take one from the kids, or from my wife?
Edit:
Here's the pics, I was wrong on the connector, it was 4 separate pins, but they are in the correct order (in the pic they're fused together now).
Burned board
My poor Audigy
Seriously, my poor Audigy!
Poor USB header
The front card reader has two header cables, one is still connected (you can see in the first picture), the burned one was the other. The whole reader worked fine, I had my phone hooked up the the USB port on it, and a SD and Memory Stick Pro plugged into it at the time, no issues with it. This has been running for over a year now without a problem. I have to assume there was a surge or maybe a short in the reader itself, and caused a problem with the header on the board. You can see in the picture that the black/grnd cable actually had the cover melted right off, as the fire was worst on the left side of the header (the grounds are 7/8, with the missing pin on the far top-left being 9).
Oh well, I'm getting a new Antec 900 case, new mobo. I'm hoping the Audigy still works, but even after wiping off the soot it looks like the board itself has been....changed. Not sure how to describe it, but it's like the leads running across it are less pronounced, like they've sunk into the board? I'm betting it doesn't work, but the new mobo has decent audio, and I only have a 2.1 setup anyways.
Damned thing is barely a year old, and I thought Gigabyte was supposed to be all awesome with solid caps that lasted longer. Now I have to either wait for a RMA replacement, or spend money on a new board (which I may do anyways and then ebay the replacement).
Luckily I have other computers to use....shall I take one from the kids, or from my wife?
Edit:
Here's the pics, I was wrong on the connector, it was 4 separate pins, but they are in the correct order (in the pic they're fused together now).
Burned board
My poor Audigy
Seriously, my poor Audigy!
Poor USB header
The front card reader has two header cables, one is still connected (you can see in the first picture), the burned one was the other. The whole reader worked fine, I had my phone hooked up the the USB port on it, and a SD and Memory Stick Pro plugged into it at the time, no issues with it. This has been running for over a year now without a problem. I have to assume there was a surge or maybe a short in the reader itself, and caused a problem with the header on the board. You can see in the picture that the black/grnd cable actually had the cover melted right off, as the fire was worst on the left side of the header (the grounds are 7/8, with the missing pin on the far top-left being 9).
Oh well, I'm getting a new Antec 900 case, new mobo. I'm hoping the Audigy still works, but even after wiping off the soot it looks like the board itself has been....changed. Not sure how to describe it, but it's like the leads running across it are less pronounced, like they've sunk into the board? I'm betting it doesn't work, but the new mobo has decent audio, and I only have a 2.1 setup anyways.
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