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Hi all,
Had a very weird problem this morning with my PC - something i've never seen before. My setup is:
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
2GB OcUK Value (2x1GB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-OK)
Gigabyte K8NMF-9 nForce4 Micro ATX
Yesterday I recieved another 2 gig of the same RAM, and:
Seasonic M12 Modular 600W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB
I fitted everything in and it all worked perfectly. My old setup had been working for the previous year with a 7600GT perfectly, only the 2 gig, psu and 8800 were new.
This morning I was in the bios and changed the RAM timing to T1, saved, rebooted and was met with a black screen. THere was a slight screetch, but it sounded more like a fan than a beep. Turned it off, and back on, and suddenly a lot of smoke started coming from the pc!
I pulled the powercable and started pulling out the RAM looking for damage. it looked fine, so next pulled out the HDDs and they were fine too.
It seems the smoke was caused by a melting cable connecting the new PSU to one of the GFX power connectors.
The yellow (+12v) cable literally melted all the way from the connector to the GFX card up until the PSU.
On first glance there is no damage to the GFX card or the PSU - but I've had to come to work, so can't research this further.
Anyone have any idea what happened here? Surely moving RAM timing to T1 shouldn't cause the GFX card cable to melt. Or was that a coincidence?
At the time I wasn't overclocking any part of the machine, and I only changed the RAM timing settings. Prior to that it had been running with no problems all night.
Any help in finding out what happened would be appreciated!
Had a very weird problem this morning with my PC - something i've never seen before. My setup is:
Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
2GB OcUK Value (2x1GB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-OK)
Gigabyte K8NMF-9 nForce4 Micro ATX
Yesterday I recieved another 2 gig of the same RAM, and:
Seasonic M12 Modular 600W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB
I fitted everything in and it all worked perfectly. My old setup had been working for the previous year with a 7600GT perfectly, only the 2 gig, psu and 8800 were new.
This morning I was in the bios and changed the RAM timing to T1, saved, rebooted and was met with a black screen. THere was a slight screetch, but it sounded more like a fan than a beep. Turned it off, and back on, and suddenly a lot of smoke started coming from the pc!
I pulled the powercable and started pulling out the RAM looking for damage. it looked fine, so next pulled out the HDDs and they were fine too.
It seems the smoke was caused by a melting cable connecting the new PSU to one of the GFX power connectors.
The yellow (+12v) cable literally melted all the way from the connector to the GFX card up until the PSU.
On first glance there is no damage to the GFX card or the PSU - but I've had to come to work, so can't research this further.
Anyone have any idea what happened here? Surely moving RAM timing to T1 shouldn't cause the GFX card cable to melt. Or was that a coincidence?
At the time I wasn't overclocking any part of the machine, and I only changed the RAM timing settings. Prior to that it had been running with no problems all night.
Any help in finding out what happened would be appreciated!
.