Severe Graphics Card Problem

[generallee01]

Oh sure, Wheelman56 has clearly shown that he did nothing wrong. *rollseyes*

Don't flatter yourself about me registering. Parts don't just go up in smoke, and 95% of the time in my experience it's because of imcompetent people like the OP. I think you are pretty sad to post so blatantly on this forum about trying to cover up your destruction and force someone to pay for your mistake when they clearly stated their return policy. Shame on you and posters like Spike.

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: generallee01
Oh sure, Wheelman56 has clearly shown that he did nothing wrong. *rollseyes*

Don't flatter yourself about me registering. Parts don't just go up in smoke, and 95% of the time in my experience it's because of imcompetent people like the OP. I think you are pretty sad to post so blatantly on this forum about trying to cover up your destruction and force someone to pay for your mistake when they clearly stated their return policy. Shame on you and posters like Spike.

Lol, guess we shall strive not to be "imcompetent" in the future. Thank you for your contribution.

-spike

 

[Wheelman56]

Originally posted by: generallee01
Oh sure, Wheelman56 has clearly shown that he did nothing wrong. *rollseyes*

Don't flatter yourself about me registering. Parts don't just go up in smoke, and 95% of the time in my experience it's because of imcompetent people like the OP. I think you are pretty sad to post so blatantly on this forum about trying to cover up your destruction and force someone to pay for your mistake when they clearly stated their return policy. Shame on you and posters like Spike.

And yet you are still just a worthless flame monkey.

 

[pcman83]

Sorry for your loose man. Um OP how much crap does generallee01 need to do to get banned? He is really acting like a little kid.

 

[aatf510]

Originally posted by: generallee01
Oh sure, Wheelman56 has clearly shown that he did nothing wrong. *rollseyes*

Don't flatter yourself about me registering. Parts don't just go up in smoke, and 95% of the time in my experience it's because of imcompetent people like the OP. I think you are pretty sad to post so blatantly on this forum about trying to cover up your destruction and force someone to pay for your mistake when they clearly stated their return policy. Shame on you and posters like Spike.

Please explain what kind of things he could have done @ his fault to get the card smoking?

 

[Wheelman56]

I don't think I did anything wrong when I installed this card... not anything to get it smoking anyhow. I know I got the PCI Express adapter cable in correctly, I know its not my PSU, I know I got it into the PCI Express slot correctly (for the most part, it was swayed to the side a bit because of the looseness of the slot, others said they experienced this also, and if it would have been out of place I don't think that is anything that would get the card smoking), I changed none of the motherboard settings, it was all stock, with one stick of RAM and the power switch plugged in. The only thing I can think of is a faulty PCI-e slot, should I send the motherboard back to MSI and ask them to test the slot to see if there are any abnormal power surges or anything like that?

 

[Chris1122]

Jus RMA the card and and send it back.

The Card might have been bad from the start. Why beat beat yourself up or let anybody else beat you up for that matter over something that might not have even been you fault.

Just DOA it and hope nothing else is fried.

Wow!! I read some real punk comments in this thread for sure.

 

[Wheelman56]

I bought it off ebay from a guy that doesn't offer any kind of return policy.

 

[Wheelman56]

Well the guy decided to be generous it seems. I e-mailed him telling him the card was dead and I didn't request a replacement but I said it would be nice. He e-mailed me back saying he could send me a replacement after I send the other one back and they make sure its dead, they would send me a replacement card that they will test also if the card is dead, so the next one will for sure work. I have to cover all the shipping costs, however. Hooray!

 

[Patrick Wolf]

I have an X850 XT PE, Neo4 Platinum, and OCZ Modstream 450. I have the 6-pin power connector in the card, and the 24-pin connector in the motherboard, no problems at all for me.

When I was trying to get the card out of the mobo, I was pulling the little lever thingy at the end of the slot trying to see how the hell it works, and I snapped it right off. I was angry and worried, but the card still fit very snug and secure so I shrugged it off.

Good luck with the replacement card, I'd start praying it was the card and nothing else. ..

Did you make sure none of the standoffs in the case were touching the mobo? That can cause some real problems.

I (somehow) plugged a molex connector into my PSU upside down, and the other end into my optical drive right side up, and it fried the damn optical drive (my crappy one, thank god), smelled really burnt and I think it may have smoked (not cigarettes ).

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Originally posted by: generallee01
Oh sure, Wheelman56 has clearly shown that he did nothing wrong. *rollseyes*

Don't flatter yourself about me registering. Parts don't just go up in smoke, and 95% of the time in my experience it's because of imcompetent people like the OP. I think you are pretty sad to post so blatantly on this forum about trying to cover up your destruction and force someone to pay for your mistake when they clearly stated their return policy. Shame on you and posters like Spike.

Welcome to Anandtech!

 

[Wheelman56]

actually, most of the standoffs had no screws in them, but they were sitting in their correct spots. i don't think that could have caused it, seeing they were in the spots they should have been anyway.

 

[HGC]

Originally posted by: generallee01
Parts don't just go up in smoke, and 95% of the time in my experience it's because of imcompetent people like the OP.

If you stick around, you'll find out that Anandtech is a great forum where people help each other, even when, God forbid, they make mistakes. Making a mistake doesn't make you "imcompetent".

 

[MrControversial]

Originally posted by: PoopyPants
dont even touch that video card due.
no offense but smoke was rolling out of it why the fvck would you even want to try it again
i guarentee you that the video card is dead.
and the only reason right off the top of my head that i know of that it might smoke like that is if you plugged in the power cable upside down on the video card.
and yes some video card makers make the power cord plug on the video card loose enought that you dont know that its upside down until its too late.
i did it last night to my 6800 GT. plugged it in, the power plug went in nicely just like it always does nad poof! when i turned it on the video card smoked.

so,,, me and BFG have a few words to exchange,, they cant expect something like this to not happen when they make the power plug loose enought hat you can plug in the cable upsaide down/backwards and not even know it.

It's not rocket science. I got it right on the first try. I have a BFG 6800GT OC and there's a notch on one end of the connector.

 

[MrControversial]

Originally posted by: akugami
I have a 24pin PSU, OCZ Modstream 520 that is plugged in my motherboard which is a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. I also have the 6pin PCI-E power plug plugged into my X800 and nothing is burned out so I don't think it matters if you have both plugged in.

Ditto...except I'm using a 20-24 pin adapter, same thing though.

 

[Wheelman56]

I don't know if this would matter or not, but my PCI express slot is really loose, like if you have the motherboard out of the case and have the card in it sits to the right about 30 degrees. I'm guessing this isn't normal, could having a bad connection with the PCI express slot cause the card to fry? Should I RMA my motherboard or is everyone's PCI express slot this way?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Wheelman56
I don't know if this would matter or not, but my PCI express slot is really loose, like if you have the motherboard out of the case and have the card in it sits to the right about 30 degrees. I'm guessing this isn't normal, could having a bad connection with the PCI express slot cause the card to fry? Should I RMA my motherboard or is everyone's PCI express slot this way?

I don't have a PCI-E mobo yet, but based on my experiences with AGP and DIMM slots, I'd say, no, that doesn't sound normal at all, and yes, if a slot isn't making good connection, it could easily cause something to fry when power is applied, as if the "other half" of the power-plane connections aren't making good contact, then the power will attempt to flow through some of the data signal-lines (possibly), resulting in Bad Things Happening.
(Mostly for the same reason that it is ill-advised to leave IDE HDs plugged into the IDE cable and into the mobo, with their power cables disconnected. They will attempt to draw power from the IDE interface itself, and potentially burn out the mobo IDE ports.)

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: Wheelman56
I don't know if this would matter or not, but my PCI express slot is really loose, like if you have the motherboard out of the case and have the card in it sits to the right about 30 degrees. I'm guessing this isn't normal, could having a bad connection with the PCI express slot cause the card to fry? Should I RMA my motherboard or is everyone's PCI express slot this way?

You deffinetly need to RMA that board before it fries another card. If it does, I dought the guy you bought the card from is going to be very willing to give you a third one.

 

[Wheelman56]

Alright, I sent in an RMA for the board. Hopefully this looseness in the slot isn't just a manufacturing defect and my new card will have the same fate, although, I will make sure to have someone that knows better waht they are doing build this computer for me and warn them that the PCI Express slot on my last board was pretty loose and to make sure the card gets a good connection.