Explodin' MSI box--looking for cause

[spwango]

I have nothing against MSI. I've had other products of theirs, and with exception of this mobo model, I've never had a problem...that said, there are only so many times I'll go back to the well. Secondly, I haven't said that I didn't cause it. I still believe it was just a typical static discharge. Is the MSI mobo less tolerant of that than others? Perhaps...is there something screwy with my home's wiring? Not according to the tester...does the PSU suck? Perhaps...the case? Perhaps...I haven't read about folks having those problems with either the case or the PSU though. This was an early revision of this mobo, so they could have made positive changes since then, I don't know--that's why I came here. My intent was not to bash MSI.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: Baked
The funny thing is some people will make everything explode. Some people should just stick w/ a Dell.

Never had a problem with MSI mobos.

neither have I, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't, if I chanced again.

At my old job we had about 25 HP AMD systems with MSI mobos in them. Out of the 25, about 15 of them blew the caps (very loudly I might add), out of the remaining 10, 2 literally caught on fire. The remaining 8 we just replaced with Compaq PCs cuz we didnt want to take any more risks with the HP/AMD/MSI combos anymore. As a side note, all of the AMD cpus still worked, even from the systems that caught on fire. So, if that's not a good enough reason to NOT get an MSI mobo then I don't know what is.

 

[Jojo7]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
At my old job we had about 25 Dell AMD systems with MSI mobos in them.

Whoa there, sparky. How many years ago was this? Dell selling amd systems?

At my job, I've seen lots of computers with bad caps that cause instability problems. Most of them are p3-450 boards. In my home use, I've had a shuttle and and an epox board with bad caps. Lots of manufacturers in that time range had problems with bad caps. I read somewhere that the caps produced around that time frame were not that great.

What does all this mean? Jellybean hotdogs.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Jojo7

Originally posted by: Oyeve
At my old job we had about 25 Dell AMD systems with MSI mobos in them.

Whoa there, sparky. How many years ago was this? Dell selling amd systems?

At my job, I've seen lots of computers with bad caps that cause instability problems. Most of them are p3-450 boards. In my home use, I've had a shuttle and and an epox board with bad caps. Lots of manufacturers in that time range had problems with bad caps. I read somewhere that the caps produced around that time frame were not that great.

What does all this mean? Jellybean hotdogs.

Sorry, sorry. They were HP pcs, not dell. My bad. And this was about a year go so they were not old PCs.

 

[Jeff7]

Something else you could do - if you have a voltmeter with a resistance test setting.
Stick the one test lead into the ground prong of the power cord while it's hooked to the PSU, and the other lead onto a bare metal part of the case. If you get zero ohms, at least you'll know that the case is properly grounded.