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superrockie

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I burned my motherboard when i tested a baked gtx480. When i turned on my pc there suddenly was a lot af smoke :eek: . I quickly shut down my pc and i restarted it with an another graphics card. Luckily my pc still works. However there is now a burned mark on my motherboard. Here is a picture of it

What should I do?
 
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What motherboard is that exactly ?
How did you test to make sure it is still working as expected ?

While it could be superficial damage, it might not be, depending how bad the other side is, so throw a pic of that up as well.
Also need a much closer shot (use macro lens/mode) of the actual damage.
 
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Alright here is a better picture. I will make a picture of the backside later.


I have tested it with intelburntest and furmark at the same time. I have a i5 2500k@4,7 ghz and a gtx 660ti. The motherboard is a budgetmodel from asrock. It's a ASRock Intel P67 Pro3.
 
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"I burned my motherboard when i tested a baked gtx480. When i turned on my pc there suddenly was a lot af smoke :eek: ."

Seems like a lot of baking / burning going on. There is no question the board is junk. Do not waste another moment.

If you had an electronics repair lab, the repair may be possible. However there is always more wrong than what is visual.
 
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Really? It seems to work for now. I made a picture of the backside. Luckily there's no damage on the backside.


And another image from the front

 
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Compman55

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Some feature of your board will not be working. You will have to find out what feature.
 
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superrockie

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Everything seems to work fine. I think the bare copper wire is the ground of the motherboard since it connects with the screws. I think my gtx 480 short circuited my ground. Becuase alot of current went through it it became very hot which fried my top part of my mobo. Anyway that's my theory.
 
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I had one of the EVGA NForce 400 motherboards a while back that did something like this. I turned it on after plugging everything in, installed windows, tested everything at stock. Shut down then overclocked a bit and it actually caught fire. I sent pictures and a detailed description to EVGA who told me to RMA it to them for replacement. I latter found that some of those boards had problems with them shorting out or something.

Anyway it isn't unheard of.
 
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I don't think it's Asrock fault that the motherboard behaved the way it did. I just put a really crappy gtx 480 in it. In retrospect the bulking capacitors on the gtx 480 were a obvious sign that something wasn't alright.
 
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I can't tell if the surface mounted resistors are damaged or not, it needs to be zoomed in more... nor what that area controls. Can't seem to find a block diagram for that mobo.
Can you make out if those are melted / damaged, or is it just charred ?
It could cause stability issues, or cause other strange/odd errors with I/O, or perhaps USB devices or ...

If it was me, I wouldn't chance my other gear that I hook up to this.
 
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I feel a little weird about buying an Asrock Fatality H87 Performance motherboard.

I know I won't overclock but maybe I'll keep a fan on the side of the case since the case can take a side fan.
 
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If the PC still works, I believed won't last as long as the factory expected life span.

Check other parts such as capacitors, the short could also caused depreciation or damamge to the other parts as well.

Hope this helps.
Bill
Tech Manager, Wptinc.
 
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superrockie

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Elixer said:
I can't tell if the surface mounted resistors are damaged or not, it needs to be zoomed in more... nor what that area controls. Can't seem to find a block diagram for that mobo.
Can you make out if those are melted / damaged, or is it just charred ?
It could cause stability issues, or cause other strange/odd errors with I/O, or perhaps USB devices or ...

If it was me, I wouldn't chance my other gear that I hook up to this.
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As far as I can see they are just charred. My pc doesn't show any weird symptoms like usb ports malfunctioning. It just works as before the incident.
 
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you mentioned that you were testing a baked GTX480? What is the idea behind baking a board?
 
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silicon said:
you mentioned that you were testing a baked GTX480? What is the idea behind baking a board?
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Well the idea was to reflow the card because of micro cracks in the lead free solder. I did it with a nvidia 9600 gso and that videocard worked again. This gtx 480 was pretty broken. Before I baked it it didn't give any picture and it's fan wouldn't start up. I thought that baking would help. It made it worse as you can sse the results :( I am now going to make a key ring from the gtx 480 so that at least i get somthing from it.
 
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