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Screwed a Brand New System

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Erik55

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So, despite all of my precautions, I somehow managed to destroy a new system. Here's the story:

I had all my cards (ethernet, video, sound, etc..), my drives, and my case.

I bought a new mobo (MSI KT333 Ultra ARU), power supply (Antec 300W ATX), processor (AMD Athlon XP 1700), and memory (256 megs DDR).

Put it all together last night, flipped the switch on the power supply, fried the motherboard. Like, literally, a little hot spot appeared in the corner, and now it's got a little black char mark.

So, positive I ruined a new mobo. What I'm not sure about is if my new CPU/Memory/Power Supply are also done. Talked to a friend, he said that this sort of thing had happened to 2 of his friends, and both times, the floppy screwed up the power supply, which in turn fried the mobo. My opinion was that I shocked something or other, and this somehow fried the mobo.

Opinions? Reccomendations? Big piles of steaming cow dung thrown in my face for being such an idiot?

Oh, and one more thing:

This morning before work I took all the new stuff out, put all the old stuff back in, and it worked fine. Cards back on the old board with the old CPU/power supply/dimm (BTW, old system has 145W power supply, P2 450 mhz, 128 sdram, generic HP board).
 
What kind of video card was it?

Some 3.3V AGP cards can fry newer, 1.5V only AGP boards.

And no, floppy drives dont screw up your motherboard. You cant plug it in backwards unless you really really try hard.
 
Do you have another computer that you can use to test the rest of your computer components? Try 1 piece of hardware at a time and see if it works properly.

Sorry to hear about your mobo, but when i built my PC i never put everything in at once.
 
Originally posted by: Erik55
Opinions? Reccomendations? Big piles of steaming cow dung thrown in my face for being such an idiot?
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I'll be in charge of the steaming cow dung thrown in your face 🙂

Hehe. You can insert a metal paper clip into 2 pins of the PSU to trick it into thinking that it's connected to a motherboard, and so you will be able to test your drives. Don't know which 2 pins, check Google..
 
I had a freak accident like that. The thing is that I was using a fully loaded dually board with SCSI drives and the works. I lost out big time because everything but my memory was fried and I couldn't RMA half the stuff I had in the board. I've now learnt to be way more careful because computers are expensive. I'm only now rebuilding my dually and the incident took place about 3 months ago🙁
 
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