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Something just went POP

GraZC

GraZC

GraZC

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Just got my 560 Ti back from RMA and it has been replaced from Gigabyte as far as i know. Had the card running several hours playing nothing to really push it then decided to hit up the latest Deus Ex.

After 20 minutes the system just turned its self off. I personally thought it's just kicked the bucket like the previous one.

Pushed the power button to see if it was just a system crash, the power came on for a split second, heard a crackle then a plume of smoke came out of the top of the case.

Opened the side up, looked at everything. Seemed fine. Trying the system again and it boots up all hunky dory, but the obvious thing is, something must have popped as i can smell the nasty burnt plastic oder.

Looking at my system spec the only change i can honestly see is that my installed ram on win764bit is now showing as 4.00gb (3.25gb usable). This is not what bios claims though as both the full 4gb is usable, theirs no onboard graphics card and i am using 64bit.

So after all this wall of text does anything have a clue at all what's happened? I'm gonna use a stress testing program after writing this to see what happens. Could it be some blocks of ram has just kicked it? I'm clueless as to what just happened.
 
Not to sure on the Pop and tbh, I would have all components out and check for burn damage.

Something is wrong and further investigating will show you (hopefully).
 
Something went pop, smoke came out of the case, you can smell burnt plastic and you're seriously considering stress testing?

I would start taking components out of the case and examine them carefully for damage.

You can take each component and give it the sniff test.
 
Just checked my resource monitor and 770MB is Hardware Reserved.

How on earth is this possible with no built in graphics card? Could the 560 Ti's own memory had died and its using the motherboard's in place?
 
Ram was some stupid bios setting by the looks of it.

By checking PSU you talking about some voltage reading program to see if it messes up?

-- Asus probe is showing no abnormalities. Gonna try 3DMark11, see if anything goes wrong.
 
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Im no expert but i would assume if something has gone POP and a plume of smoke has come out of your case i would insta boot down, take it apart bit by bit and carefully look at every single item inspecting every mm of it, if somethings gone pop, your gonna see it. and if you dont really want to do that then i would take all the parts out and put them in one by one and test each individual is working atleast. id say its a bit wreckless maby causing further dammage if you stress test it. think logicaly here do you really want to stress test a possible broken pc.
 
harry5522 said:
Im no expert but i would assume if something has gone POP and a plume of smoke has come out of your case i would insta boot down, take it apart bit by bit and carefully look at every single item inspecting every mm of it, if somethings gone pop, your gonna see it. and if you dont really want to do that then i would take all the parts out and put them in one by one and test each individual is working atleast. id say its a bit wreckless maby causing further dammage if you stress test it. think logicaly here do you really want to stress test a possible broken pc.
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That's what i've done and have no real understanding as to how the system is fully working now. The only thing i'm left to try is the graphics card again, it seems more than stable enough running windows, but maybe its overheating and shutting the whole system down when its getting stressed. Only one way to find out. I cant risk sending it back to OcUK to find it wasnt what was at fault.
 
As everyone has said....take it apart and check,but i'd guess it was the psu, if you saw smoke and smelt burning plastic,it's likely of come from there.Ram isnt going to pop and smoke and burn,but a psu does,my mate had a cheap psu for half a day and his 8800gt melted it within half a hour,we smelt burning and then the smoke came and a shut down,

if you ask for advice on these forums i suggest you listen to the suggestions or dont bother asking, it's not wise to mess with faulty electrics
 
As everyone has said....take it apart and check,but i'd guess it was the psu, if you saw smoke and smelt burning plastic,it's likely of come from there.Ram isnt going to pop and smoke and burn,but a psu does,my mate had a cheap psu for half a day and his 8800gt melted it within half a hour,we smelt burning and then the smoke came and a shut down,

if you ask for advice on these forums i suggest you listen to the suggestions or dont bother asking, it's not wise to mess with faulty electrics
 
lichfield said:
As everyone has said....take it apart and check,but i'd guess it was the psu, if you saw smoke and smelt burning plastic,it's likely of come from there.Ram isnt going to pop and smoke and burn,but a psu does,my mate had a cheap psu for half a day and his 8800gt melted it within half a hour,we smelt burning and then the smoke came and a shut down,

if you ask for advice on these forums i suggest you listen to the suggestions or dont bother asking, it's not wise to mess with faulty electrics
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If you read above you'd see that i have said i've checked all the parts within the pc which is what people have advised i do. I'm not about to open the psu up as i'd most likely brake the thing.

On topic: Psu voltages are showing as fine, graphics card and cpu temps are fine. It's almost as if whatever happened never did.

Could this be something as stupid as say, a spider crawling into the psu and getting a nice suprise?

Even did a full test on 3DMark11 and it's fully run it without any problems.
 
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