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Adventures in Computer Building: Exploding Video Cards!

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MadJack

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Anyone ever had a video card go BANG! Well happened to me this weekend. I was building a system for someone and I ran into problems with the motherboard I ordered, so I went to Micro Center in Cambridge MA (if any of you live in Boston and try to get from Quincy to Cambridge on a Saturday, it's "Interesting"). Pickup a new board, reinstall everything, put the brand new Chaintech 5900XT into the case, put the power connector on and power up the case and BANG! sounded like a .22 going off. Scared the crap out of my son and I. One of the resistors on the top of the card blew. I have never seen this before, luckily the rest of the components were okay, I picked up a Sapphire 9600XT and it works fine. Anybody ever have this experience?
 
MadJack said:
Anyone ever had a video card go BANG! Well happened to me this weekend. I was building a system for someone and I ran into problems with the motherboard I ordered, so I went to Micro Center in Cambridge MA (if any of you live in Boston and try to get from Quincy to Cambridge on a Saturday, it's "Interesting"). Pickup a new board, reinstall everything, put the brand new Chaintech 5900XT into the case, put the power connector on and power up the case and BANG! sounded like a .22 going off. Scared the crap out of my son and I. One of the resistors on the top of the card blew. I have never seen this before, luckily the rest of the components were okay, I picked up a Sapphire 9600XT and it works fine. Anybody ever have this experience?
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Yup, it was probably a capacitor. They will blow up if they are installed backwards. ;)

Sounds like that 5900 missed a few steps at quality control. :p
 
Probably manufactured on a Monday and someone had a hangover. I was really looking forward to seeing what the 5900XT could do.
 
God this thread makes me think of my days in electronics school... one of my instructors would carry around a decent sized capacitor and a battery and if he was bored and things were really quiet he would make contact with the battery (with reversed polarity) and that motherfucker would BANG! and scare the shit out of everyone in the room. By the time I left that semester I was a nervous wreck. :p
 
yep same thing happened to me once but it was with one of my old motherboards, one day i was on my computer and i heard i bang, I didn't know where it came from at the time so i continued working. However over the next month my comp began to act strange (freezing up rebooting etc) so i had my dad look at it and lo and behold a capacitor had blown. The happy ending is that he replaced it and it worked fine until i didn't need it anymore.
 
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