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Fried Motherboard

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Kryp

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Yeah big newbie Ive had some major problems with this comp. I cant remmeber the exact mobo, i can get it if u need it, but I have fried my second mobo from the same comp. It seems to work fine, but when I just recently tried installing a memory card, i could smell burning, which i believe means the mobo is dead. Is it possible that it is some other piece of hardware that is doing this? What possible ways are there to fry a mobo...
 
1. Give us the case type or a pic.

2. Could be a standoff or a motherboard riser is the wrong position, some cases have stamped risers for mounting MB's, other use brass risers or another type to mount the MB too the case. (this is plausable since you were installing a stick of ram, ie. pressed the mb against a riser)

3. Could be a bad PSU causing the trouble, bad voltages, poor rails, plain out cheap PSU.

4. Might have another piece of equipment that is going bad, casuing a problem related to number 3.

5. Could be a number of things that could be doing it. Give us a breakdown on what all equipment and items you have in your case.

6. Maybe live in an area that has problems with electrical spikes, might want to try a good surge supressor or a UPS, or both.

Some very knowledgable people here that can help you through it.

Goodluck, I tried to help the best I could, Ill leave it up to the computer gods to step in now.
 
ummm this was a premade computer from vpr matrix, so the case isnt anything u can really look up (I dont think) i could get pics but its a little bit difficult without my own personal comp to upload pics from digital camera and stuff. Here are specs

Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 2.0 GHz, with 400 MHz system bus
256 MB 266 MHz DDR SDRAM, 2 total DIMM slots upgradable to 1.0 GB
Western Digital 100.0 GB (7200 rpm) hard drive
16x maximum speed DVD-ROM drive (40x maximum speed CD-ROM)
32x12x40 CD-RW drive
nVidia GeForce2 GTS-V 64 MB DDR graphics card
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 audio card
10/100 integrated network interface card
V.92 high-speed modem
3 IEEE 1394 ports allow for digital video transfer in real time, plus 6 USB ports
Windows XP Home Edition operating system preinstalled
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