A friend came to me with this problem today...
After working fine for 2 months, his computer started pumping out a very strong burnt smell... Nothing software related was having problems, the computer was running fine, but we shut it off none the less and opened it up... We discovered all 4 of the red wires had began to burn causing the red wire insulation to bubble near (and inside the large molex connection) that connects the power supply to the motherboard. It has seemed to fuse the two together making it impossible to disconnect the power supply from the mobo. Just the red wires were affected...
We built his computer about 2 months ago (early december), and it had worked fine ever since. The motherboard is an Epox 8KHA, with a 1.4 T-Bird, 256 Megs of Micron DDR.... Matrox G450 (dual video out) Netgear NIC, and a Generic Modem. None of the parts seem to be harmed, like I said everything was working fine, even as these wires were being burnt.
I have been using google in an attempt to find a schematic of the motherboard connection, to find out what the red wires do, but I have had no luck.
Everything in the computer appears perfectly normal, except for the burnt insulation on the 4 red wires (burning only occured within 1 centimeter of the translucent connection) and clearly burned a dark line down to the motherboard through both halves of the translucent connector....
On the back of the motherboard very faint burn marks can be seen near where the wires come though the mobo and stick slightly out the back.
Anyone know what went wrong? My buddy is ready to buy a new powersupply and mobo, but wouldn't mind a replacement from MWave if it can be determined that it was faulty. The power supply was new, as was everything in the computer, 300 watt, AMD approved.
*shrug*
No lightning strikes, no other wierd stuff, i dunno... We got the stuff from MWave, any suggestions on how to treat a return situation with them would be appreciated...
pretty wierd ehh? Any Ideas?
After working fine for 2 months, his computer started pumping out a very strong burnt smell... Nothing software related was having problems, the computer was running fine, but we shut it off none the less and opened it up... We discovered all 4 of the red wires had began to burn causing the red wire insulation to bubble near (and inside the large molex connection) that connects the power supply to the motherboard. It has seemed to fuse the two together making it impossible to disconnect the power supply from the mobo. Just the red wires were affected...
We built his computer about 2 months ago (early december), and it had worked fine ever since. The motherboard is an Epox 8KHA, with a 1.4 T-Bird, 256 Megs of Micron DDR.... Matrox G450 (dual video out) Netgear NIC, and a Generic Modem. None of the parts seem to be harmed, like I said everything was working fine, even as these wires were being burnt.
I have been using google in an attempt to find a schematic of the motherboard connection, to find out what the red wires do, but I have had no luck.
Everything in the computer appears perfectly normal, except for the burnt insulation on the 4 red wires (burning only occured within 1 centimeter of the translucent connection) and clearly burned a dark line down to the motherboard through both halves of the translucent connector....
On the back of the motherboard very faint burn marks can be seen near where the wires come though the mobo and stick slightly out the back.
Anyone know what went wrong? My buddy is ready to buy a new powersupply and mobo, but wouldn't mind a replacement from MWave if it can be determined that it was faulty. The power supply was new, as was everything in the computer, 300 watt, AMD approved.
*shrug*
No lightning strikes, no other wierd stuff, i dunno... We got the stuff from MWave, any suggestions on how to treat a return situation with them would be appreciated...
pretty wierd ehh? Any Ideas?
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