R
rikgale
Hi
I have just blown up my spare computer. I was swaping the mobo over from an
Abit KR7A to an Asus A7V8X-X. Pluged everything and made sure all was good,
turned on the PSU at the wall for the 1st time, turned it on at the back (i
never got to actually turn the machine on). The little green light on the
mobo came on for about 2 secs, followed by a loud buzzing noise from the PSU
and a then after about 1 sec of the buzz, there was a loud bang. This fused
the house as well as totally buggering the PSU (assume that it is buggered
as there was lot of smoke coming from it.) Then the little green light went
out! I have to admit at this point I was not looking and the green light to
see if it went out before or after the bang, I was looking at the PSU in
horror at that point.
What I am curious to know is the likelyhood of having damaged the rest of
the computer i.e. the cpu (XP1800) and the RAM (2x256 PC2100) and the Gfx
card (ATI 9600)?
Any opinions/help will be most welcome
Rik
CPU - XP1800
RAM - 2 x256
Mobo - KR7A / A7V8X-X
PSU - Some 300Watt thing I got about 3 years ago (meridian tech. corps.)
I have just blown up my spare computer. I was swaping the mobo over from an
Abit KR7A to an Asus A7V8X-X. Pluged everything and made sure all was good,
turned on the PSU at the wall for the 1st time, turned it on at the back (i
never got to actually turn the machine on). The little green light on the
mobo came on for about 2 secs, followed by a loud buzzing noise from the PSU
and a then after about 1 sec of the buzz, there was a loud bang. This fused
the house as well as totally buggering the PSU (assume that it is buggered
as there was lot of smoke coming from it.) Then the little green light went
out! I have to admit at this point I was not looking and the green light to
see if it went out before or after the bang, I was looking at the PSU in
horror at that point.
What I am curious to know is the likelyhood of having damaged the rest of
the computer i.e. the cpu (XP1800) and the RAM (2x256 PC2100) and the Gfx
card (ATI 9600)?
Any opinions/help will be most welcome
Rik
CPU - XP1800
RAM - 2 x256
Mobo - KR7A / A7V8X-X
PSU - Some 300Watt thing I got about 3 years ago (meridian tech. corps.)