[TriLUG] More hardware woes

[Nathan Conrad]

I actually am at my friend's house near San Francisco (it as a nice
place) and he got me to look at his computer which was exhibiting the
same symptoms, although I could not find the melted transistor. It
turned out that one of the motherboard mounting brackets was installed
on the motherboard tray under a point on the motherboard where there
was no screwhole and it shorted some of the traces on the
motherboard. I've also seen screws that have been dropped and landed
under the motherboard shorting things out.

-Nathan

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:02:29AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> OK - so I put in the new power supply, along with a new fan I had been
> waiting to install, and turned it on. Everything came up beautifully - the
> system started doing an fsck because it had been poorly brought down when
> the power supply died.
> 
> Suddenly... nothing. Screen died, fans and drives stayed on, no keyboard
> LED's.  I smell burning plastic.  Yank the power cable, open up the case,
> and now I can turn it on to the point of getting fans and drives to spin
> up, and power LED's on, but no video and no system beeps.  Furthermore,
> there's a transistor that's visibly melted on the motherboard. (Yikes!)
> 
> The MB is under warranty, so I'm going to get it replaced. My question for
> y'all is: can you think of something I might have done to cause this? I'd
> rather not plop in the new MB, just to have it melt again.
> 
> The MB was installed in November, it's a Gigabyte GA-7VAX.
> 
> ap
> 
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