Fried motherboard???

[Jackson Lehmann]

Hey everyone, yesterday I decided to install some new RGB fans that I was planning on putting in a new system, but wanted to see how they would look in my current system. Since I didn’t have an RGB hub, but had plenty of other IQ products in my computer I thought that adding the fans using their integrated daisychain method would be the perfect solution. I plug them into my Z390-a motherboard at the bottom left 12 V RGB header. After I got everything put back together, I turn the computer on and it almost immediately posted then blue screened. I thought it may have had something to do with a previous over clock that I had done on my CPU, so I went to the bios and took it off. Then I tried to boot again to no avail. My computer then started to power cycle and occasionally take me to the windows recovery screen. I remember watching a Linus video where he talked about plugging in RGB fans to the wrong header having the effect of maybe frying the motherboard. I didn’t think about this at all when I plugged it in, and since the fans worked for a few seconds I thought that I had maybe done it right. Could I have fried my motherboard? If anybody knows anything about this please let me know thank you.

[Quackers101]

if you plugged the fans in something wrong, like a 3 pin to 4 pin etc. (RGB vs "Addressable" RGB aka A-RGB)

But don't think you should fry your motherboard, it was working before?

Fans or the lights would maybe fail before anything else, unless there is something about a HUB being used?

Have you tried other standard options like booting into BIOS and see if everything is there, reset the ram by placement and stuff like that?

Or if your storage became corrupt?