End of year thread: Tally up the dead parts!

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:02 pm

I was lucky, only two casualties.

1) Soundblaster Live 5.1 which for some reason decided it wanted to cause disk corruption.
2) Intel D875PBZ motherboard which for some unknown reason caused random crashing.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:12 pm

Hmmm, a few recent SW issues now solved but not ONE toasted hardware component that I can ever remember in my 9 yrs of PC experience.

My kid once destroyed what was my first PC ever years ago after getting upset with it, kicking the PC hard enough to bent the mobo and toss the cpu out the 2nd floor window bending its pins, didn't work after that BUT otherwise, no major probs with other PCs.

Ahhhh, my older laptop didn't like being dropped face down (accident) but that was fixed under warranty. That was about 2 yrs ago.

zandor · Post by **zandor** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:47 pm

I don't know what the hell happened, but I just toasted an MSI K7D Master-L and an Antec True 550W. Something burnt all the 5V connections between the PSU and mobo. Short? Overload? Surge? My best guess is a short since I heard something rattling around when I took it apart.
I think the PSU might actually still be ok if I put a new 20-pin connector on it. If only my P200MMX was ATX instead of AT so I could test it on something useless.
Actually even the board wasn't acting 100% dead. It's probably toast, but I'm kinda tempted to try soldering the leads from the PSU onto the board, fire it up, and see what happens.