Main components were: Evga 1300 power supply, asrock extreme4 mob, 5820k, corsair 110i cpu cooler, g skill ripjaw memory, phantek pro case. No other components but fans installed. Was My 3rd custom build...
Phantek case had the reset leads labelled as "pled"(so I had 2 sets of pleds and no resets) so after 30 mins confusion/rereading manuals/googling and then tracing wires figured out the mistake and decided to try a boot to test.
Immediately on power on there was a "Pssshh" sound and a smell of burning plus white smoke (no visible fire) - powered off within a few seconds. Wondered what I had done wrong - pled lights plugged into reset should not cause burning! Looked for damage - no burn marks, no bulging capacitors in view - could not see anything wrong. Smoke smell seemed to come from around the cpu region but no obvious damage on the motherboard.
Then sigh realized I had made beginners mistake one and not plugged in the atx cpu power cable. Plugged that in, deep breath, powered on again and no more smoke and all seemed to work...
Put in an old graphics card - booted and again all was fine, ran for several hours and the PC seemed stable - tested as much functionality as I could - usbs all seems fine, sound, network... and the reset switch was working with the "pled" leads installed in reset (at least I got that right)
On vacation now and will come back to figure out next steps in 10 days but any advice would be appreciated!
1) was it my fault - is not plugging in the cpu cable enough reason for a burn
2) could the smoke be anything else but the motherboard
3) what would you suggest I do ?
- guess it's the mb and try and send it back
- stress the system -OCing the cpu and see if it's really stable
Cheers
Michael
Phantek case had the reset leads labelled as "pled"(so I had 2 sets of pleds and no resets) so after 30 mins confusion/rereading manuals/googling and then tracing wires figured out the mistake and decided to try a boot to test.
Immediately on power on there was a "Pssshh" sound and a smell of burning plus white smoke (no visible fire) - powered off within a few seconds. Wondered what I had done wrong - pled lights plugged into reset should not cause burning! Looked for damage - no burn marks, no bulging capacitors in view - could not see anything wrong. Smoke smell seemed to come from around the cpu region but no obvious damage on the motherboard.
Then sigh realized I had made beginners mistake one and not plugged in the atx cpu power cable. Plugged that in, deep breath, powered on again and no more smoke and all seemed to work...
Put in an old graphics card - booted and again all was fine, ran for several hours and the PC seemed stable - tested as much functionality as I could - usbs all seems fine, sound, network... and the reset switch was working with the "pled" leads installed in reset (at least I got that right)
On vacation now and will come back to figure out next steps in 10 days but any advice would be appreciated!
1) was it my fault - is not plugging in the cpu cable enough reason for a burn
2) could the smoke be anything else but the motherboard
3) what would you suggest I do ?
- guess it's the mb and try and send it back
- stress the system -OCing the cpu and see if it's really stable
Cheers
Michael
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