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I bought this..
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual-Channel Kit
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 630 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU)
MSI 870-C45 AMD 770 Chipset (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)

All of this bought and came today, fitted it all together, And the really worrying thing is it ran fine when i turned it on for the first time,Aswell i put a Nvidia 8500GT 512mb card in it, After about the 6-7th time of booting it and trying to get the BIOS to work and i realised i hadn't put a two pin connector in to the card, now my question is why it overheated and came up with smoke. I then let it cool down for a few hours, tried again, it runs back up with fans working ok although there is no turn on sound, where it normally beeps. And i cant get any picture on my monitor from my graphics card, i was thinking of using the VGA on the motherboard to the monitor but that is yet to be done. Any help would be really appreciated.
 
I would have a go at using the onboard GPU making sure there is no problems with the board.

Wonder if the GPU was on it's last legs and perhaps this have gave that extra push.
 
The extra power connectors reduce the power the gfx card needs to draw through the motherboard, hopefully you haven't killed them both.

As said above I'd try getting the system to boot with the minimum hardware. Also reset the bios, clear out any previous settings.

MW
 
Smoke tends to mean you've killed something. Probably the motherboard in this case, but it's impossible to say for sure without testing it.
 
Hi there,

Looking at the 8500GT, there isn't a port for external power (6/8 pin PEG connection) as it is a rather low power card. However, there is a 2 pin S/PDIF sound connection that connects to the motherboard to pass-through sound for HDMI. May I ask what you connected this to?

As for smoke, are you certain that it came from the graphics card? It is much more common for smoke to come from the PSU, are you certain this isn't the case?
 
cmndr_andi said:
Hi there,

Looking at the 8500GT, there isn't a port for external power (6/8 pin PEG connection) as it is a rather low power card. However, there is a 2 pin S/PDIF sound connection that connects to the motherboard to pass-through sound for HDMI. May I ask what you connected this to?
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That would cause some smoke :p
 
Also, that motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics unfortunately.

The turquoise plug on the back is actually a serial port, not a D sub/VGA connection.
 
The conclusion is the GPU was on its last legs, blew the board with it... Im hopefully going to get a replacement for the motherboard, Wondering if it took the CPU with it, or would it just not boot entirely, ive heard CPU's are clever enough to switch off when they see trouble these days.

(Nothing got connected to the TWO pin connector.
The smell seemed to come from the card.)
 
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There's got to have been some kind of short circuit to fry the board surely. Lots Of tales of blown cards on the graphics card forum, but they never seem to damage the motherboard.
 
Just worries me that the system won't POST on boot up, And I'm debating whether to send the CPU back aswell, any ideas guys?

(I also have another 500w PSU that i could try it on, Worth a try?)
 
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