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Built PC. Plugged it in. smelt smoke. Unpluged. RAM has been tested as working. Any chance of other dead hardware? And yes, I installed the standoffs xD.

 

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Its hard to tell without seeing everything. Have a good smell around the board, unplug the gpu and unnecessary stuff and switch on with minimal components, but it sounds like something shorted, maybe a psu cable or something

 

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What are we supposed to be looking at in the picture?

Check all the headers/plugs on the motherboard, look for shorting/burning/melting. If you can't see any signs of this, make sure everything is plugged in properly.

Was it an instantaneous smell, and did you see any smoke? What cooler are you using?

I helped my younger brother build a computer on Christmas day and the air cooler still had some oil on it from the manuf so it smelled like burning oil for a little bit the first few times we powered it up.

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Oh, are you showing us the VRM chip? It looks like it might have burned out. If there are bubbles/bumps or any kind of discoloration on the VRM chip then you will have to RMA the board. Was there any kind of popping noise when you powered it on?

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Its hard to tell without seeing everything. Have a good smell around the board, unplug the gpu and unnecessary stuff and switch on with minimal components, but it sounds like something shorted, maybe a psu cable or something

Sniffed around. GPU smells bad which by tested on the PCPartPicker thing I meant before this incident. So not too high hopes for GPU.

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Oh, are you showing us the VRM chip? It looks like it might have burned out. If there are bubbles/bumps or any kind of discoloration on the VRM chip then you will have to RMA the board. Was there any kind of popping noise when you powered it on?

I dont know however it was near RAM. There is a bump on that chip.

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What are we supposed to be looking at in the picture?

Check all the headers/plugs on the motherboard, look for shorting/burning/melting. If you can't see any signs of this, make sure everything is plugged in properly.

Was it an instantaneous smell, and did you see any smoke? What cooler are you using?

I helped my younger brother build a computer on Christmas day and the air cooler still had some oil on it from the manuf so it smelled like burning oil for a little bit the first few times we powered it up.

That chip to the left of the screw hole and the smell was instant.

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I dont know however it was near RAM. There is a bump on that chip.

Yeah, my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I'm pretty sure that's a Voltage Regulation Module (VRM). Lol.

Either way, that chip should not have any bumps. You'll have to RMA the mobo.

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>inb4 people complaining about CX.

Yeah, my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I'm pretty sure that's a Voltage Regulation Module (VRM). Lol.

Either way, that chip should not have any bumps. You'll have to RMA the mobo.

The VRMs on that board are heatsinked, no? RMA nonetheless.

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That chip to the left of the screw hole and the smell was instant.

 

looks fried, I suggest RMA, that and the GPU is that smells bad. Need to work out why it happened

 

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Shall I try getting it to POST in another PC?

 

Ye try the GPU in another, see if its dead. If it boots, give it s stress test and check for artifacts. I had a backplate short on my first 970, but it was fine

 

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Ye try the GPU in another, see if its dead. If it boots, give it s stress test and check for artifacts. I had a backplate short on my first 970, but it was fine

Threw into another PC and it booted into Windows just at low resolution obviously because no graphcis driver.

 

Will install driver and see.

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>inb4 people complaining about CX.

 

The VRMs on that board are heatsinked, no? RMA nonetheless.

Not all VRMs have heatsinks. If it's not a heavily loaded circuit then there would be no need for a heatsink.

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Ye try the GPU in another, see if its dead. If it boots, give it s stress test and check for artifacts. I had a backplate short on my first 970, but it was fine

Completed 10 mins.

 

PS: I go where you live on holiday. Have you been to that game shop in Truro near Subway? It's pretty sick.

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Completed 10 mins.

 

PS: I go where you live on holiday. Have you been to that game shop in Truro near Subway? It's pretty sick.

 

Ye I've been there, but I generally buy games over the internet now, its a bad time for stores with pricing

 

The card should be ok then, just get that board RMA'd

 

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