My First 'Fire in a PC thread'

carbon8ed · 12 Jun 2006 at 13:10

When : Saturday afternoon during the England match
Where: garage - wasn't overly hot in there
What happened: I went into the garage and smelled a lovely sweet smell of burnt halogenated compounds and my downloader was dead.
What's the machine: Downloader Iwill MPX2 with 2 x XP2500 bartons, 1 GB RAM, HDD etc. I thought the PSU had gone first until I noted the mark below:

A quick strip down later and I saw these:

On a positive note all the other components have survived, although the PSU still smells of TCP!!

Question will Iwill offer me a refurb or replacement?

trojan698 · 12 Jun 2006 at 14:04

Is it within warranty? If not you could always say it nearly burnt your house down. Thing is, do you want another one? Why do you have 2 bartons for a download box btw?

MeatLoaf · 12 Jun 2006 at 14:05

Not sure but ive seen a dual socket a mobo in the clearance or bgrade section

Rick_Barnes · 12 Jun 2006 at 14:49

LoL - thats soooooooo unlucky :rolleyes:

Mattw · 12 Jun 2006 at 16:23

check the warranty on it, they should replace it without issue.

ob1 · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:22

Ive seen fires specifically excluded in RMA conditions

carbon8ed · 12 Jun 2006 at 18:59

trojan698 said:
Is it within warranty? If not you could always say it nearly burnt your house down. Thing is, do you want another one? Why do you have 2 bartons for a download box btw?

During SETI 1 all my 9 machines were dual AMD, the dual bartons for the download box had actaully become one of the last two - still running BOINC.

I will e-mail Iwill and see what they say, but the board must be 5 or so years old now.

There is a dual socket A mobo in clearance and I still have one of them, not sure it's (the downloader) worth £148 + VAT. Looking at a popular auction site, the barton's and dual SLK800's may well fetch over £110 so all being well could get an A64 with a clearance 939 board.

kinggost · 12 Jun 2006 at 23:02

i had a old pc chips mobo that set on fire took it back they sent it back to manufacture and they replaced it

jellybeard999 · 13 Jun 2006 at 04:34

ul...

im not sure that B grade mobo is of realistic value tbh...

40 or 50 might be a more reasonable amount... id have expected that price new (in 2000 lol) :eek:

afraser2k · 13 Jun 2006 at 09:18

Wouldn't your home insurance cover this damage if warranty doesn't?

carbon8ed · 13 Jun 2006 at 22:31

jellybeard999 said:
ul...

im not sure that B grade mobo is of realistic value tbh...

40 or 50 might be a more reasonable amount... id have expected that price new (in 2000 lol)

Hey Jelly - good to see you on these forums as well as the others - see this wouldn't have happened if I'd watercooled the Iwill as well as A7M266-D

Yeah gonna probably auction the CPUs on the (in)famous site and get another dualcore or opteron

as I have another sli board

For afraser2k (not seen you for ages sir! - used to read you a lot) tbf (frank not honest) my excess on the contents makes it not worthwhile.

I don't think the RMA will work as the online tech support e-mail has just bounced back

comp builder · 18 Jun 2006 at 15:07

unlucky mate
how would saying it nearly burnt down your house make them want to replace it????? :confused:

FerociouS · 19 Jun 2006 at 10:06

damn, unlucky m8, i feel for you.

ted34 · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:54

afraser2k said:
Wouldn't your home insurance cover this damage if warranty doesn't?

Not worth it - new board be less than the excess and then your premiums would go up as well.

Thats why water cooling is so much better - once it catches fire the tubes melt and the water then puts the fire out