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Originally posted by smilecme
Hey I have a question. I had a computer that just stop powering up one day. So I brought a new power supply and installed it. Now I know I hooked everything up correctly and when I powered up the computer came on. About 1 mintue later the motherboard started smoking. UGH! now was this due to the old power supply going out that cause the problem, or was it the new power supply that kill the motherboard. at least I think the motherboard is dead. Yesterday I power it back up and there was no smoke but I heard no beeps and only saw a red light. Have any ideas on what happened? Is the computer still worth trying to save? |
I'm not experts when it comes to motherboards, but from what you told me, I think that it's safe to say that your motherboard is fried. When you bought the new powersupply for your motherboard, did you decide it to do it on your own, or did a computer techy tell you to do it? I think the power supply you bought had probably supplied too much power for what your mother board could handle, and i doubt that there is a way to save it now.
Though I've never killed my motherboard , I have burned out the memory slot on my computer. One time I was installing new memory that I had bought, I had inserted it the wrong way. My computer began beeping very loudly when I pressed the power button. When I shut it off and take the memory out, I find that it's burning hot, and after it cools, I stuck it back into my computer, and my computer starts up fine but does not recognize the new memory i've added. I try the same thing with another piece of new ram, and still the same problem. Your mistake is very much like mine, except that it's on a large scale. I'm sorry man, I'm afraid that what's happened is irreversible.
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