The new "died in the line of duty" thread

Lost another motherboard today, it was crashing occasionally for no reason so I changed the PSU about a month ago, but the board died today.

That makes one AMD and four Intel boards lost. the intel boards all just died and wouldn't post any more, the AMD I fried when it was running naked on the work bench.

Anybody want a stack of motherboards, FREE , except for the the cost of shipping. :D




 
My abit mobo housing my main rig is officially dead, it's currently awaiting burial 'till I order a new board from the Egg, probably that funky ASrock 939/754 board, or a cheapie chaintek one.

You know it's the mobo when the processor can loop prime95 for 12 hours with no problem from a boot cd, memtest for 24 hours with no errors, and it spontaneously reboots within 5 minutes of entering windows or linux, especially when the power supply got metered the other day and is working perfectly....
 
Gosh I thought there is never a day I would post this. But due to some wierd reason, my first quad p3 xeon mb may have died and must have to use the second mb to get it running.

Thus leaving the case I am building w/o a motherboard in it. No worry, I was planning to make the case universal for any motherboard and or powersupply.

Lets all hope I can find a third spare Quad xeon mb somewhere on Ebay, for cheap.
 
Jeez, that sucks. Hope you find one cheap, or get the old one working.

 
I believe it is not motherboard related, because the problem also occurs on the replacement board.
 
The mobo in my main rig died today. Who knows when I can afford a new one. Shed a tear men, for today we lost a 2100+.

Fold on fellas
 
chileman said:
The mobo in my main rig died today. Who knows when I can afford a new one. Shed a tear men, for today we lost a 2100+.

Fold on fellas
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I shed a tear for your loss as well. You had just pulled ahead of me in our little stats race too.
 
Don't worry, I've got my eye on a Foxconn mobo at NewEgg for $43 that I think I can order within a day or two.
 
after some time putting it off, i decided to see waht was wrong with my other dualy rig (2x2.4's). turns out i've lost an antec true 550 eps power supply after only 2 months in operation :mad:
does anyone know how to further troubleshoot a power supply or should i just try to rma it?
 
Bodega said:
after some time putting it off, i decided to see waht was wrong with my other dualy rig (2x2.4's). turns out i've lost an antec true 550 eps power supply after only 2 months in operation :mad:
does anyone know how to further troubleshoot a power supply or should i just try to rma it?
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Come over to the PSU forum ther are bunch of people that can help you out.
 
I am crying at the present moment, the quad xeon lost due to a power problem. The daughter board that connects the redundant power modules and the motherboard together, went out.

Now the second quad server will run because there is no power share board, the mb plugs directly to the redundant power supply cabinet.


Sometimes you loose one and sometimes you gain one.
 
Now that sucks, two Xeon boxen lost... I think we need a moment of silence for those. :(

 
Mine Is not dead yet, I mean I still can revive mine, it will only take $$$ and a perm job to cover the cost of getting a part from a reseller of old Intel parts.

Till then, I can still work on my second server case.

I would have had two pc's that would have died, but the second one decided to come back from the grave and work. The scsi controller on the board died, but the mb works.
 
After a weekend of working on my PC, I thankfully found that the Zalman's fan wasn't crap, it was my PSU going to the hardware graveyard in the sky. I guess its just Ultra's having like an 8 month timebomb in them. Swapped it out with a Neopower, and all is happy and well, put the Zalman back in, and my OC is back too, so all in all its happy times. :D

 
Ya, Kyle had an Ultra die last night (see frontpage if you haven't already)

Anymore if I have issues with a machine not posting or just being unstable, 9 times out of 10 it's the PSU. Odd how that works.

 
chileman said:
Ya, Kyle had an Ultra die last night (see frontpage if you haven't already)

Anymore if I have issues with a machine not posting or just being unstable, 9 times out of 10 it's the PSU. Odd how that works.

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I think 9/10 is way high. Most of the unstable systems I get are flaky RAM, and flaky Mobo's .....or plain ass picky mobo's *cough*DFI*cough*
 
Yeah I thought the timing on mine dying was pretty funny. Saturday afternoon I went to fire up some BF2, and it kept dropping out, coupled with the fact that every time my vid card needed juice there was this nasty screaming coming from the unit.

Obviously more proof for us [H]ardcore dedicated folder, and even for your normal user, a quality PSU is the way to go... I've certainly learned my lesson. :D

 
Spectre said:
I think 9/10 is way high. Most of the unstable systems I get are flaky RAM, and flaky Mobo's .....or plain ass picky mobo's *cough*DFI*cough*
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Wow, I never have ram issues myself, then again I always run my ram at stock speeds. I buy cheap mobos that won't OC worth a hoot. Ahh, the joys of college and the lack of funds that come with it!

 
What a very, very, very. Sad Night.

I actually had to post here.

in this thread.

the major BAD thread to be posting in.

damn it all to hell..

so working on getting the 2200 bakedon sent to me working
been having problems, not really sure wtf was going on, monitor
was being kinda funny and had to "restart" it (ie push power on and off)
and then was working again (on my dual box i brought back up since
i thought it was something with the 2200 box..)... so i go back and
try working on the 2200 again, everything is still not working... so
i come back.. post on OCAU a bit.. and then i started smelling
something... you know... not just a "normal" smell....

but the smell of blue smoke... as it populated the room, even
my dog could smell it and he started looking at me funny...

went back.. 2200... no funny smell.

Dual server...omg no....*snif* nope its fine...

wtf.

the monitor?

you must be sh me.

nope.

:(

its a sad day, when a 17" CRT monitor dies for the [H]orde.
at least it didnt have a cpu that was folding..
 
KodiakStar said:
What a very, very, very. Sad Night.

I actually had to post here.

in this thread.

the major BAD thread to be posting in.

damn it all to hell..so
i come back.. post on OCAU a bit.. and then i started smelling
something...
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You know... I think they call that Karma! ;)


 
That wasnt even the monitor that went to see t3h devil.. i mean..OCAU

although.. it was an emachines monitor... err.

(it was free)
 
Late night, felt like getting a few more MHz out of the main rig. all the sudden POP! That oh so familiar smell of magic smoke filled the air. :( Of all the luck! Main rig down! have to do a transplant to a smaller power supply. I can't believe that I have to do this post using the fold server because the HTPC dosen't have a vid card that will tramsmit to the TV!! :mad: Oh well, it gave me over 6 months of bliss. I just hope that nothing else went with it.

RIP :(

Update: Everything seems fine so far. only gonna run one instance while the Artic Silver 5 get reaquainted with the heat sink again. Only gonna be a couple days before it cools down again.
 
Pictures from the above:

internaldamage.jpg


And the capacitor (I think) that fell out upon removal of the power supply from the case.
blowncap2.jpg

blowncap.jpg


 
EPoX 8RDA+, rev. 1.2. Capacitors in the upper-left of the board all burst... system started to randomly reboot, and when I opened it up to begin my first hardware troubleshooting bout (was going to swap PSUs), I saw the capacitors. Swapped in my spare A7V333, and all is *knocks wood* well!
 
An old Asus A7N266. Uncle's borg. Got stuck w/ a boot virus. Managed to get that off but now it cannot boot up the HD or any other drives. Trying to find a solution but looks like its toast. :(
 
Well the part came in today and I put it into the pc this morning. I get the same issue as before, I have tried everything known to get it to work.

Now at this point, after spending quite a bit of money, that I am contacting the ebay seller who said on the page that it was tested and working, but you can clearly see that it is not.

I don't think a refund is in order, but a pc of equivalent type would be great, maybe they would accept a trade for my pc for another quad p3 xeon server, that is w/o memory and processors. And this time, I will bring my own processors and memory to even test it myself at their location up in Columbus.
 
An update on my quad server, the motherboard has died. I chose to purchase a Compaq Proliant 5500 off the same seller. I will be bringing that compaq 168pin edo memory and my lot of 4 500mhz 1mb processors with me to have them configure it before I pick it up.

So it leaves the question, is the second quad server going to run, or has it suffered the same fate.

It would only seem that it maybe a possibility or intill I get a new mb, and that will be sometime. So the case I am building for it will still continue, but I can only say it won't have that quad motherboard I will put in it.

And a note to you all, thinking that you want this board, it has Cmos checksum errors with it. It will not boot. check the fs/ft forum for the items for sale from those servers
 
lost a PSU today...

so much for my UD output. heh. time to look at replacing it...

it was wierd how it died. i'd just VNC'd in to check on it (and get a bookmark). i closed the VNC session, then heard a hard drive spin down. wierd, i thought. check UD box... not on. turn it on, smell that oh-so-lovely smell of PCB burning. "OH @#$T@" so much for that PSU :(

stupid thermaltake.
i'm invincible!
 
My friend's mobo and PSU (actually, the PSU was mine) died over the weekend. We have nice melted ATX connectors on both of them. Funny thing is that the board would still boot up even with the melted and blackened connectors and a couple of melted wires. I don't know which one was the problem but I don't think either one will see any use any time in the future.

Damnit, and I could really use that PSU right now. I found a PIII 500 slot 1 and a Celeron 633 socket last night. Both have mobos. I know the PIII works fine, I saw it up and running about 6 months or so ago. I don't know about the Celeron. Run both off the one PSU (if I was brave enough to do the work) if I also had some RAM for them and maybe a couple of hard drives. I think I might be able to scrounge up some RAM for them but a power supply is a different story. :(

 
SmokeRngs said:
I think I might be able to scrounge up some RAM for them but a power supply is a different story. :(

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Can you noyt just buy one? My Mom's Celeron 400 runs off a Mercury 300W
 
I lost a MSI K7N2-L Delta motherboard over the weekend.

My son is freaking out because his computer is down and he can't Instant Message with the girls. I guess he doesn't know what a phone is for!!!

I tease him relentlessly about IM and the phone and the girls. Now I know why I had kids. Just to be a pain in the butt back to them!!!!

Now to get my daughter to college. She had already checked herself out as a family member 3 months ago after graduation. Time for a little peace and quiet in the house.

Fold On!!!!
 
Codegen said:
Can you noyt just buy one? My Mom's Celeron 400 runs off a Mercury 300W
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Actually, the problem is money. I have none right now. It's actually quite scary how I have been able to stretch the food I buy into as many meals as I do and actually have it taste good (well, good enough that my son doesn't complain and he actually eats the food). It's going to get tougher, though. The little turd isn't even five years old but seems to be catching up to me on what he's able to eat. And I can eat a lot more than the vast majority of people my size.

 
My "Tower of Power" Athlon64 died today, I believe. I dragged it over to a friend's house for a bit of LANfun, and when I got home, I get nothing on the monitor. Plugged in a diff. GFX, nothing. Swapped IDE cables on the HD, nothing. Reset CMOS, nothing. Drives spin up, proc fan loads, but nothing on the monitor. I fear my AGP slot may be busted, or that slightly bent pin on the proc may have just bit me in the ass, but either way, it's down, and the damn DFI board has no POST display.
 
Shadowchild said:
My "Tower of Power" Athlon64 died today, I believe. I dragged it over to a friend's house for a bit of LANfun, and when I got home, I get nothing on the monitor. Plugged in a diff. GFX, nothing. Swapped IDE cables on the HD, nothing. Reset CMOS, nothing. Drives spin up, proc fan loads, but nothing on the monitor. I fear my AGP slot may be busted, or that slightly bent pin on the proc may have just bit me in the ass, but either way, it's down, and the damn DFI board has no POST display.
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Try reseating every connector in there. I know it's a pain in the ass but it's worth trying. Do this with every card you have in there and the RAM. About the only thing I would leave alone is the CPU. It's virtually impossible for it to get shaken loose. I have found this to cure many problems like this.

Sometimes I have been forced to completely take the system apart and put it back together when the above suggestions didn't work and after that the system would work.

One more thing you might try is putting a different BIOS battery in. You can sometimes get some weird behavior when the battery is dying or getting low.

One more option would be to toss a PCI vid card in it if you have one. I keep a couple around just for times like this. I doubt that is problem since if there was a problem with the AGP card the system will usually beep at you.

 
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