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Pastore

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You guys may have remembered my thread of a week or so back... I thought my power supply might have been dead, so I picked up a new one... FedEx guy comes today, real nice guy, noticed it came from NewEgg and we had a 10 Minute conversation on PC hardware, but anyhoo... I get my brand new Sparkle power supply in my computer room... I yank off the old power supply connector from the motherboard, and I see black powder fall from the connector... I look at the connector, and 4 of the male prongs are completely charred, along with the 4 corresponding female connectors on the motherboard :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

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So, now its time to look for a new motherboard... :(:(:(:(
 
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Pastore

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they are from geocities so you gotta copy and paste the addresses into a new window...
 
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Pastore

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anyone know what have could have caused this? the only thing i can think of was that it was a no name 300W power supply.... and i was overclocking a 1.0 tbird to 1.2 with default voltage....
 
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ST4RCUTTER

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anyone know what have could have caused this? the only thing i can think of was that it was a no name 300W power supply.... and i was overclocking a 1.0 tbird to 1.2 with default voltage....

1. PS has gone FUBAR.
2. Power surge that the VR circuits of the PS couldn't handle.
3. Spilled your beer.

 
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bjc112

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<< 3. Spilled your beer. >>



Ha,

BUmmer man, i'm betting it was just to muhc for that PSU to handle... if i was u, i would at least get a 340... or is it the sparkle 330...:p

Good Luck on the Mobo choice...
 
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When you go to a geocities page and it tells you the page is unavailable or whatever just drag the "E" icon in the address bar into the explorer window, or just drag it to the right inside the address bar :D
 
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<< When you go to a geocities page and it tells you the page is unavailable or whatever just drag the "E" icon in the address bar into the explorer window, or just drag it to the right inside the address bar >>



That makes no diff if he has broke the bandwith.
 
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Jerboy

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<< good thinkin jerboy...

all 4 are red... the only 4 red wires there... >>



That narrows the problem down to 5V bus. I just took a look at an ATX connector and there are total of four 5V wires. If it was only a part of 5V lines, I would have suspected flaky connection. It is unlikely it had flaky connection at all four locations and the only other thing I could guess is there was a tremendous current flowing through 5V line.

I'm confused
 
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Slacker

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When I click his link it tells me this

<< This page is not available.
We're sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing.
If this site belongs to you, please read this help page for more information and assistance.

For general questions see our main help area, or search for other member pages.
>>

when I drag the "E" icon to the window or address bar it shows the page with the picture.
 
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BD231

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Holy crap dude...., those pics are crazy!. I call up the people who made your PSU, thats the first time I've EVER seen or even heard of something like that.
 
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edit:Nevermind,dragging to the little E worked.
 
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jlee75

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yeah only thing i can think of is a current surge. something was pulling too much current. so any idea if the mobo still works?
 
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LordEdmond

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hi cant get at the pics so this is a guess

burnt connectors are caused by

1/ over current
2/ weak tension in the male/female part ( I mean the computer bits ) LOL
3/ dirty surfaces on the connectors
4/ dare I say connector not fully home

 
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RossGr

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This type of failure is generally not caused by the power supply, my first impulse is resistive contacts. But it would seem that the 3.3V line would also suffer if all of the contacts had corrosion. Perhaps at some time there was a 5V short to ground through the mobo, and if the contact at the connector was not good the pins could have been slightly burned, now you have a resistive layer on those pins. Over time and thorough normal usage this will only get worse. This is because any resistance at the connector creates heat which causes additional corrosion which increases the resistance which increases the heat.... see where this is going?

What ever it looks like it is new mobo time, I would not recommend plugging the new PS into those burned pins, you could start the cycle all over again.
 
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