Possible to blow up your pc? I mean explode!

[marc512]

My friend said to me he was overclocking his pc and he said a few transistors on his motherboard did blow up and his processor was smokeing badly.

Is this possible? he said he supplied his processor with 7V.....................................7? is that even possible.

 

[rexehuk]

Only time my PC has actually "exploded" was when my CD drive blew up. Lucky I wasn't near it as it sprayed components and CD shrapnel across my room, destroyed my poor Project IGI game

 

[Kennysevenfold]

cheap motherboard - cheap cap's - overclocking - BOOM

 

[marc512]

Only time my PC has actually "exploded" was when my CD drive blew up. Lucky I wasn't near it as it sprayed components and CD shrapnel across my room, destroyed my poor Project IGI game

spontaneously exploding dvd drive? iv never heard that before!

 

[J.B]

if the guys an idiot to put 7V on the CPU he doesnt deserve the right of owning a computer.

Some caps probably went pop and he thought hed tell a tall tail.

 

[Gav]

i blew a psu once...

think it was about 150w and i decided to use it to power my 6800gt

there was a hiss, there was smoke then there was a bang

luckily it didnt do any damage to the computer though

 

[beefybarn]

Yeah just a few caps went pop i suspect, and yes ive also been a victim of the exploding cd drive, cost me my mdk2 disc

 

[james.miller]

Things do go bang, yes. Happened twice to me - first time was the sata controller on my old abit nf7s and the 2nd was a brand new ati r9500np: it caught fire when i hit the power button, a cap exploded and blew a hole in the pcb

 

[reflux]

7v through the CPU? Yeah, right.

 

[marc512]

if the guys an idiot to put 7V on the CPU he doesnt deserve the right of owning a computer.

Some caps probably went pop and he thought hed tell a tall tail.

lol i agree his pc is fairly new and i dont understand why he would try a thing like that. I argued with him that processors dont run as high as that and he continued to say they ran at 10v..i think the most iv seen in a cpu was 1.8V. but 7 pff.

 

[marc512]

Yeah just a few caps went pop i suspect, and yes ive also been a victim of the exploding cd drive, cost me my mdk2 disc

why do cd drives explode? i thought they where quite safe but after starting this thread its changed my opinion..should i wear knights armour when useing my drive? its pretty old

 

[Hotwired]

Don't put slightly chipped or cracked disks in a high speed drive then

 

[Jezcentral]

Don't put slightly chipped or cracked disks in a high speed drive then

That's what I thought. What actually did the blowing up, the CD drive or the CD?

 

[alex24]

Blown up more PSUs than I can count, always because they're faulty.

Never blown a motherboard, they tend to just die on me instead!

Bought a new Pioneer DVD-RW (when they were brand new tech) and tried to read a disc, when the laser promptly set it alight and burned most of it to a crisp, knackering the whole drive, filling my computer and upstairs of the house with horrible burning CD smoke. It also stained the other drives in the case. I turned off the PC fairly quickly when that happened!

CD didn't shatter though as it was melted a bit and black.

Also saw a chip on a hard disk set itself on fire when it was plugged in. Colleague was holding it in his hand and 'poof' a little flame appeared then burnt out a short while later.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I put 3v through my old XP2400 on an Abit NF7-S v2 mobo without a heatsink on for a laugh - it was rather interesting to say the least!

Should have filmed it!

 

[RANZID]

i once had to QA a pc built by a trainee , he had fixed the motherboard to the case with no header screws so that the board was flush with the metal backplate, switch on ...

and fizz crackle flame pop , not realy exploding but quite pretty

 

[Hotwired]

That's what I thought. What actually did the blowing up, the CD drive or the CD?

The disk would be spun up to high speed as part of normal procedure by the drive but if its chipped or cracked it can shatter catastrophically from the stress, flinging shrapnel all round the drive interior. That almost certainly means a written off drive and the fragments of the disk could smash off the plastic front of the drive on their way.

So the CD and because of that, the CD drive.

 

[LeJosh]

Change the voltage rating of the PSU to the american standard? Older PSUs had this anyway.

 

[rexehuk]

spontaneously exploding dvd drive? iv never heard that before!

Indeed. Project IGI wouldn't install on the PC install kept failing... tried 5/6 times one after another and the thing just exploded chipped my wall any everything from 2 meters away.

 

[Tarnblade]

Ive never had my cd drive explode, but at one point it did decide to go a little james bond on me and tried to melt a hole in the CD that was in at the time.