Antec 902 cables melted

DirtyJester · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:28

Ok

Booted up this morning in my new (only been used less than a couple of weeks) Antec 902 and it turned into a chimney .... smoke flying out top of BigBoy fan. Powered everything down straight away and quickly removed side panels to reveal (rear panel) two melted cables ... the single rear 120mm fan and the bigboy roof 200mm fan almost stripped clear of burnt plastic covering. Anyone ever had any problems like this before ? These 2 cables where plugged together on a single molex from a Coolermaster silent pro M 1000 watt psu the 2 front 120 mm fans where plugged together on same molex cable diff. plug .... surley this couldnt have overloaded esp with all fans on low setting.

Randomface74 · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:30

sounds like a short

DirtyJester · 26 Dec 2009 at 12:05

yeah it does but why would it take up to 2 weeks esp. when the case hasnt been moved around ...

Randomface74 · 26 Dec 2009 at 12:07

luck, or lack of

DirtyJester · 26 Dec 2009 at 12:21

latter .... just have to wait till monday now and see what the shop says (not OcUK) ...

sammie377 · 26 Dec 2009 at 18:43

What a bummer specially at this time of the year, I hope it gets sorted for you real quickly.

MeMeMeMe · 26 Dec 2009 at 20:12

Nasty! Reminds me of last Christmas Eve, around midnight, when i was playing on my desktop replacement laptop, and suddenly burnt plastic - then the laptop shut down.
The graphic card had overheated badly, and taken out the motherboard too. Fortunately it was two weeks inside a 3 year warranty.

Guitarman0 · 26 Dec 2009 at 20:15

That sounds bad

Good luck on fixing it

G-Dubs · 26 Dec 2009 at 22:08

With luck just shorted the fans, probably the wire trapped somewhere and the insulation wore through.

Hopefully all else ok

Good luck

DirtyJester · 28 Dec 2009 at 21:56

Shop have replaced both rear 120mm fan and bigboy 200mm fan with new

radar19 · 29 Dec 2009 at 00:02

you were lucky that is was the fans not something more expensive!

DirtyJester · 29 Dec 2009 at 05:58

radar19 said:
you were lucky that is was the fans not something more expensive!

.. tell me about as I was gonna save this for my new i7 build (which I will be doing now) that said everything has been tested that was in the case and all is running fine ...

Oh and for anyone that didnt know the BigBoy fan comes out the top of the case .... the top frame (black plastic grill cover etc) lifts off once you remove the screws inside.