9500 Pro catches fire!

[Faustus]

Hey!

A friend of mine said that he installed a used (almost 1 year old)
9500 Pro 128mb vidcard into another MB. He said that right after
turning on the PC, the card caught on fire!

I guess it started because of a bad capacitor. Is this posible? I've
heard of PSU catching on fire but vidcards?

Too strange....

Faustus


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[JAD]

what mb? older boards had a few different voltages for the AGP slot

 

[Dave C.]

Hey!

A friend of mine said that he installed a used (almost 1 year old)
9500 Pro 128mb vidcard into another MB. He said that right after
turning on the PC, the card caught on fire!

I guess it started because of a bad capacitor. Is this posible? I've
heard of PSU catching on fire but vidcards?

Too strange....

Faustus

Was it a 1.5V or .8V video card in a 3.3V card slot, perhaps?
(OOOOOOps!) -Dave

 

[spodosaurus]

what mb? older boards had a few different voltages for the AGP slot

Should have been keyed to prevent insertion though (and not enough to
cause a fire).


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[Rob]

I think your friend is exaggerating. Perhaps it burned out something and
smoked and
smelled bad, but I seriously doubt there were flames coming out of his card.