diablo900t
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I've been doing some video card testing at work and ran into what I thought was a dead Power Supply, but i'm guessing now its a dead MOBO.
Here's the scenario, Dell Dimension 4400 and we had a slew of video cards to test. I tested a new PNY Geforce 6800 GT, unk,own to me that this machine had only a 250W Power Supply!!! All in all, the machine worked FINE with this card, so i went about my business, next card up was a Geforce 5700...all went well again. Next up was an older card, an SiS 6326, put the card in, BAM, Orange Light where the power light was and a burning odor. I immediately pulled the plug, we ordered a new PS and still the same problem(this occurs with any card installed). The mobo light shows green, but there is still a burning smell once all the fans load up and the power light is still green.
My thoughts are this, that SiS card could've been an older AGP architecture in this machine, maybe that fried the mobo? Any thoughts on this? I thought maybe the stress of the 6800 on such a low PS could be the root of the problem, but it wasn't until 2 cards after that with the SiS card that the machine died. I've never had problems on my own builds, but just curious if there's anyway to ressurect this thing.
Thanks in advance
Here's the scenario, Dell Dimension 4400 and we had a slew of video cards to test. I tested a new PNY Geforce 6800 GT, unk,own to me that this machine had only a 250W Power Supply!!! All in all, the machine worked FINE with this card, so i went about my business, next card up was a Geforce 5700...all went well again. Next up was an older card, an SiS 6326, put the card in, BAM, Orange Light where the power light was and a burning odor. I immediately pulled the plug, we ordered a new PS and still the same problem(this occurs with any card installed). The mobo light shows green, but there is still a burning smell once all the fans load up and the power light is still green.
My thoughts are this, that SiS card could've been an older AGP architecture in this machine, maybe that fried the mobo? Any thoughts on this? I thought maybe the stress of the 6800 on such a low PS could be the root of the problem, but it wasn't until 2 cards after that with the SiS card that the machine died. I've never had problems on my own builds, but just curious if there's anyway to ressurect this thing.
Thanks in advance
