Graphics card made my mobo fry?

[Oxydoreduction]

Hi guys,

 

Had a small problem this afternoon.

 

I pulled a fully working r9 270x of my system at work, to put it back on one of my systems at home. Nothing out of the ordinary, unplug the old card, put the new in, press the power switch and... nothing, not even a fan spinning.

 

Checked cables but everything is plugged in.

 

Pulled out the r9 270 and pressed power again.

 

Nothing happened except lots of crackling and a hell of a bsod (blue smoke of death) coming out of my case

 

I tried with an other graphics card, it's displaying something but barely readable...

 

Tested the r9 270x on an other motherboard, which is now completely dead...

 

I carried the card in a box with some protective plastic over it and it didn't take any hit so I wonder how could it have happened.

 

Have any of you experienced this kind of problem?

 

I fear the card could have damaged my PSU also, do you think I should change it?

 

Many thanks.

 

[Guest]

You did turn it off before removing the R9 270X, right? That's the only thing I can see causing it.

[jools]

mite have just blown psu only, but test at own risk....

[Oxydoreduction]

10 minutes ago, LeinadTM said:

You did turn it off before removing the R9 270X, right? That's the only thing I can see causing it.

I did completely unplug the system to clean the dust.

 

14 minutes ago, jools said:

mite have just blown psu only, but test at own risk....

 

I was curious and tried the PSU on an old mobo just now and it works fine.

 

The mb with another PSU gives the same result, a greenish barely readable display.

 

To be sure I will change the PSU and simply RMA the board to see what Asus tells me but I will throw the r9 for recycling.

 

Thanks for your answers.