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USUAggie

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I was an idiot a d I plugged my brand new BFG ES800 6+2 pin into my new asus p5q pro 8 pin motherboard connection. Upon pressing the power button a few ticks happened and then a loud pop happened, and a lovell burnt electronic smell happened. Now when I press power nothing happens, yes I put the right 8 pin plug into the motherboard. The south bridge LCD lights up though, but when I press power nothing comes on in the case not even the psu fan. Do you think I killed the psu and the
Mobo? I hope just the psu but I have no way of testing either. Sorry for the bad typing I am on my iPhone since my computer is dead.
 
USUAggie said:
I was an idiot a d I plugged my brand new BFG ES800 6+2 pin into my new asus p5q pro 8 pin motherboard connection. Upon pressing the power button a few ticks happened and then a loud pop happened, and a lovell burnt electronic smell happened. Now when I press power nothing happens, yes I put the right 8 pin plug into the motherboard. The south bridge LCD lights up though, but when I press power nothing comes on in the case not even the psu fan. Do you think I killed the psu and the
Mobo? I hope just the psu but I have no way of testing either. Sorry for the bad typing I am on my iPhone since my computer is dead.
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Pull the PSU and Motherboard, which one smells.

Logic tells me the PSU probably protected itself but not before you popped something on the motherboard.

If the PSU protected itself you will have to unplug the PSU from the wall for a few for it to reset properly.

To give it a cursory test take a paper clip and unbend it into a big "U". Stick one end of the "U" into the 24 pin plug GREEN wire. The other end to any black wire on that plug. Plug two or three fans into the Molex connectors and plug in the PSU. If you have been a good boy today, it might run;)
 
Well the loud pop sounds like a capacitor blowing up to me. You can inspect the board for damaged capacitors but even if you don't find any that doesn't mean no damage has be done to it.

As for the power supply just holding it to you nose should tell you if something fried within.

That said I am rather shocked that the 6+2 was designed in such a way that it would allow you to plug it in to a 8pin motherboard header. Or did you have to force it in? I ask cause I don't have either handy to compare the design.
 
TGA said:
Well the loud pop sounds like a capacitor blowing up to me. You can inspect the board for damaged capacitors but even if you don't find any that doesn't mean no damage has be done to it.

As for the power supply just holding it to you nose should tell you if something fried within.

That said I am rather shocked that the 6+2 was designed in such a way that it would allow you to plug it in to a 8pin motherboard header. Or did you have to force it in? I ask cause I don't have either handy to compare the design.
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Yeah, they're keyed different, so it would have had to be forced into the connector. And the way the 6+2 is wired, plugging it into the motherboard would have shorted +12v straight to the ground. Hopefully, he did forcefeed +12v through the ground plane of the motherboard as well.
 
USUAggie said:
I was an idiot a d I plugged my brand new BFG ES800 6+2 pin into my new asus p5q pro 8 pin motherboard connection. Upon pressing the power button a few ticks happened and then a loud pop happened, and a lovell burnt electronic smell happened. Now when I press power nothing happens, yes I put the right 8 pin plug into the motherboard. The south bridge LCD lights up though, but when I press power nothing comes on in the case not even the psu fan. Do you think I killed the psu and the
Mobo? I hope just the psu but I have no way of testing either. Sorry for the bad typing I am on my iPhone since my computer is dead.
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I would bet more on you killed the board by plugging in the PCI-Express connector to the EPS connection.
 
Thanks for the replies. I ended up killing the mobo and as far as the psu I could never get it turned on by it self and I plugged it into an older system and it would not turn on so I just sent in both things. I just hope it did not fry my 4870 as well, is there a good chance this could have happened?
 
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