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RayDontPlay
By RayDontPlay
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Hello, I have a very simple question i cant seem to find anywhere, Can you fry a motherboard by drawing to much power from a 4 pin connector? I tried hooking up a fan controller and 2 fans to a 4 pin on the motherboard and it smoked and the controller didnt light up and now im not getting a boot screen. Heres my system.

 

Mobo: GA-MA78LM-S2              
Processor: AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Processor, ~3.2GHz
Heat Sink: Zalman CNPS5X
Memory: 4096MB of Crucible 800mhz RAM
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 
Power supply: 750 Watt Thermaltake semi modular 
Storage: 250Gb WD caviar 
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It might have been your psu over voltaging itself.

If you've previously won the build off please pm me so we can get something worked out.

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i removed the card reader/ fan controller. still not working. PSU fan doesnt even spin up like the circut isnt getting closed.

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i removed the card reader/ fan controller. still not working. PSU fan doesnt even spin up like the circut isnt getting closed.

 

Its your PSU probably. What is the make and model of it?

If you've previously won the build off please pm me so we can get something worked out.

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It's probably your psu since its not even getting electricity.

If you've previously won the build off please pm me so we can get something worked out.

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Check your caps? Remove your card reader and see if it works.

I tried removing the card reader. still nothing. im checking the caps now.

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is that a bad psu? thermaltakes are shit?

 

Pretty much.

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is that a bad psu? thermaltakes are shit?

Pretty much.

I can vouch.

 

Either your PSU could be dead or the card reader shorted your board to death.

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Ok, now the psu fan is spinning up again, and so is the cpu fan without the card reader. what was smoking? was i taking to much voltage from the 4 pin or what? im going to hook up a monitor and see what happens.

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Did you try removing the psu and jumping it with just a fan or somting hooked up. Best thing to do in these situations is to start isolating parts and testing them. If the psu works then its probably the mobo.

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Iv tried different power supply, and iv tried a different CPU, im still not getting a boot screen. My Gpu fans spin up and so does my heat sink, Would they spin up if my motherboard was fried?

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