apetay
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I really messed up this time, so here's another entry in the
"Don't Do As I Done Chronicles":
A couple years ago, I received a mobo, processor, case / PS, and water-cool parts for free from a friend, but I've been using a crappy gt220 I got on the cheap.
I finally got a new video card. So excited, because it was my first GTX (750 ti) and only $80, used.
I plugged it in to my Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard, and powered on. Got a message that the six pin wasn't plugged in, I've seen that before in builds I've done for others. No problem.
Here's where it gets horribly ugly. Because of where my supply (OCZ700mxsp) is mounted in, the 2 (red) video 8 pin modular plug ins were hidden behind part of the frame. All I could see were the four 6 pin to
molex / sata modulars...
Soooooooooo (not thinking) I stick a six pin to six pin pci connector wire I had lying around in one of the 6 pin receivers on the power supply and run it to my 6 pin video card...
Power on, and SIZzzzzzzzzZLE *POP*.
I fried the power supply and the mobo's PCI bus. There a visibly blown chip right by x16 #1. Though the mobo still powers on with a replacement PS, alas it displays no video.
The only saving grace is that this procedure somehow managed to NOT fry the video card, so I guess I got lucky there. Plugged it in to my boring DP55WB (that I paid way too much for) so I'm up and running again.
I'd be much more saddened if I had paid for the mobo and power supply, but it still is the best mobo I've ever owned and a nice enough PS...
I'm sad I killed 'em.
Don't do as I do folks. Pay attention.
"Don't Do As I Done Chronicles":
A couple years ago, I received a mobo, processor, case / PS, and water-cool parts for free from a friend, but I've been using a crappy gt220 I got on the cheap.
I finally got a new video card. So excited, because it was my first GTX (750 ti) and only $80, used.
I plugged it in to my Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard, and powered on. Got a message that the six pin wasn't plugged in, I've seen that before in builds I've done for others. No problem.
Here's where it gets horribly ugly. Because of where my supply (OCZ700mxsp) is mounted in, the 2 (red) video 8 pin modular plug ins were hidden behind part of the frame. All I could see were the four 6 pin to
molex / sata modulars...
Soooooooooo (not thinking) I stick a six pin to six pin pci connector wire I had lying around in one of the 6 pin receivers on the power supply and run it to my 6 pin video card...
Power on, and SIZzzzzzzzzZLE *POP*.
I fried the power supply and the mobo's PCI bus. There a visibly blown chip right by x16 #1. Though the mobo still powers on with a replacement PS, alas it displays no video.
The only saving grace is that this procedure somehow managed to NOT fry the video card, so I guess I got lucky there. Plugged it in to my boring DP55WB (that I paid way too much for) so I'm up and running again.
I'd be much more saddened if I had paid for the mobo and power supply, but it still is the best mobo I've ever owned and a nice enough PS...
I'm sad I killed 'em.
Don't do as I do folks. Pay attention.