Possible dead Chaintech vnf4 mobo need help

[zioerr]

Yesterday I recieved a Chaintech vnf4 motherboard (not ultra) along with a athlon64 3000, pqi 256MB ram PC3200 and a saphire x600pro. I put everything together and it all worked very nice, I was installing some drivers when I hear sparks, but the computer is still going, then I go and check it out and I see some cables from a case fan I had not covered touch the video card and the computer turns off. Now it won't turn on. And when I plug in the power conectors to the board (without pressing the power button) an integrated circuit and a capacitator close to the bios rom get very hot, it's a c5706 but i haven't found anything about it on google yet. Is there anything I can do for this board ??

 

[montag451]

Hi, and welcome to the forums.

What do you mean you heard sparks?
Look very closely for
a) little black scorch marks around all connectors/capacitors
b) bulging capacitors [they should have flat tops, if they are bulging even slightly, then they are caput)
if in doubt RMA, and if you are lucky, there was no collateral damage
RMA

 

[zioerr]

I mean that I heard that sound like when two wires cross and sparks come out, can't find a word for it in english
I can't find any bulging capacitors or scorch marks, everything seems ok, and i've tried 3 different power supplies and still
won't turn on, the last psu i tried, started to smell like it was burning, but i worked fine when I placed it back on the other pc.
Although this board has a 24pin atx connector, all my PSUs have 20pins, but still, it used to work with 20 pins.