Did I fry my p4p800 deluxe present?

[lucky]

Had a smokey Christmas today:

1st mistake I made was not realizing I needed a 2x2 power adapter for
the P4. But that's secondary. I figured I'd hook everything up and see
if it went anyways. The manual just said it wouldn't boot without it so
I figured I have nothing to lose. The last thing I hooked up was on
page 2-30 the power supply thermal connector. I had a connector from
the power supply that looked like it would go into the connection and
figured that's what it was. I ensured black ground went to ground on the
trpwr1 connector.

I started it up and poof, smoke and unplugged immediately. The wire to
that trpwr1 melted and I got a burn for my efforts. I never had this
connector hooked up on the P3bf and if I recall correctly, when I did
try it, there was a humming noise so I disconnected it immediately and
the board ran fine thereafter. Yes I guess I was dumb to try to use the
connection again


I tried starting it up again and all the lights on the front were lit
and the fans were all working. The floppy, power and HD were on solidly.
I know the wires to the lights are hooked up right as long as each
white wire was indeed a ground as per the manual indicated.

So yes I know I need the 2x2 to boot but is the fact that the other
lights were on solidly mean that I fried the board? Or would that be a
normal thing to happen without the 2x2 power connector plugged in.

I'm going away tomorrow but when I get there I'm going to find a 2x2
adapter so when I get home Sunday, I can try it out.

Soooo did I fry it or was I lucky?

 

[lucky]

FYI

after reading http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/12v2x2.htm

I'm definitely getting a new power supply based on this article and the
fact that the one wire on the 2 wire connector is literally burnt on my
'old' atx supply.

 

[Tocapet]

Sounds like what you fried was your power supply, not the mobo. If that's
true, you are indeed "lucky"

Tocapet

 

[lucky]

Sounds like what you fried was your power supply, not the mobo. If that's
true, you are indeed "lucky"

Tocapet

I hope I'm that lucky but if it was fried, would it still run the fans
and turn on the lights?

 

[Splitskull]

It could... maybe only 1 of the 3 voltages are missing....

 

[Mr. Lee]

use a digital volt meter and find out!

 

[lucky]

unfortunately while I can connect working components, I stay away from
electrical problems and don't even have a meter.

 

[lucky]

unfortunately while I can connect working components, I stay away from
electrical problems and don't even have a meter.

got the 400 watt supply....says invalid system disk so it's the ide
cable loose or something. I will have to diagnose when I get back
sunday. Also I have to move all the HD because the cables are smashed up
against the cpu. I guess a full tower is a good thing now 1 of 3 of
the HD show up in the setup and the chip and ram show up correctly so
that means my board is OK right?

 

[Jim Shaffer, Jr.]

1st mistake I made was not realizing I needed a 2x2 power adapter for
the P4. But that's secondary. I figured I'd hook everything up and see
if it went anyways. The manual just said it wouldn't boot without it so
I figured I have nothing to lose. The last thing I hooked up was on
page 2-30 the power supply thermal connector. I had a connector from
the power supply that looked like it would go into the connection and
figured that's what it was. I ensured black ground went to ground on the
trpwr1 connector.

I started it up and poof, smoke and unplugged immediately. The wire to
that trpwr1 melted and I got a burn for my efforts. I never had this
connector hooked up on the P3bf and if I recall correctly, when I did
try it, there was a humming noise so I disconnected it immediately and
the board ran fine thereafter. Yes I guess I was dumb to try to use the
connection again

Maybe it's a fan tachometer for the power supply. My power supply, an Antec
TruePower 480, has that but not a temperature sensor.