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Hi all,
Had a fun evening assembling a fiddly PC inside my new Silverstone TJ08 case. The platform was an mATX X58 motherboard from DFI. Everything seemed to be working fine - it was posting, but I had no peripherals plugged into it. So I went looking for a keyboard but couldn't find my normal one, so I went to get an old one from the shed. I plugged it into the usb port, fired the PC but nothing really happened. Then something started to smell of burning, so I switched it off immediately and unplugged the keyboard. In case it was the PSU I plugged in a different one and fired up (without the keyboard) but the motherboard is now only displaying a crazy partial LCD readout and appears to be generally ****ed.
So could the keyboard have killed the motherboard via the USB port, or should I be thinking about something else? Needless to say, whole evening and money down the toilet!
Cheers
Had a fun evening assembling a fiddly PC inside my new Silverstone TJ08 case. The platform was an mATX X58 motherboard from DFI. Everything seemed to be working fine - it was posting, but I had no peripherals plugged into it. So I went looking for a keyboard but couldn't find my normal one, so I went to get an old one from the shed. I plugged it into the usb port, fired the PC but nothing really happened. Then something started to smell of burning, so I switched it off immediately and unplugged the keyboard. In case it was the PSU I plugged in a different one and fired up (without the keyboard) but the motherboard is now only displaying a crazy partial LCD readout and appears to be generally ****ed.
So could the keyboard have killed the motherboard via the USB port, or should I be thinking about something else? Needless to say, whole evening and money down the toilet!
Cheers