Posted December 15, 201212 yr I give up. My mobo just smoked and it looks really bad. Memory area is toast.I hope my harddrive is good and ok.WPI is officially on hold. I cannot do this for nearly no support anymore..... sent from my phone.
December 17, 201212 yr Yowsers, Kel! I hope things get better for you. It is not fun to lose a computer. Slightly off topic: How did your computer get "smoked"?
December 17, 201212 yr Author I see several blown capacitors and quite a bit of black, burned area. Weird though the psu tests ok.
December 17, 201212 yr Dirty electricity and brownouts (daily occurrence in my country,) very damaging to electronics
December 17, 201212 yr I agree with Rick. 3 HDD's died on me and others suffered some degrade in the 1 year warranty period before I got my UPS. Now it's about 5 years since I got it and all HDD's work well even if some of them have more than 1500 - 1800 days of continuos uptime and stoped degrading. The oldest (WDC WD3000JS-19PDB0) counts 2164 days of work and still contains my system partition installed almost 3 years ago (28.03.2010).
December 19, 201212 yr I see several blown capacitors and quite a bit of black, burned area. Weird though the psu tests ok.I have seen this issue, although it is generally on the "older" motherboards that have the cap problem (and usually the capacitors have not literally 'blown' up). I have even replaced quite a few and have restored most to working condition. Sucks to hear though.
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