Ethereal_Dragon
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Post this because I am frustrated right now. It has been a long time since I have had a failure of any kind that I can think of. I believe the last one was when my Shuttle SN25P (or something like that) quit on me when I was trying to overclock.
I went to turn on my desk top PC this morning to work on some wedding stuff before work, and when I hit the power button, I was greeted with a loud zap or poping noise, along with a blue/green flash from inside the case. I saw the flash through the top case fan on my Antec900 case, and it LOOKED like it was the rear case fan, but I highly doubt it, since i had no power at all when trying to start it after that. Thinking the Silverstone 700w PSU might have taken a dump on me (bought March '09), but it's more likely that a capacitor blew up given the area I saw the flash in. The motherboard is in my sig, 3 year warrenty expires in November, so I am kind of hoping that is what blew, and that I can get a new one.
Hypothetically, lets say that the mobo blew up on me, Do you think that Gigabyte would send me another LGA 775, or would it be more likely that they will send me an newer LGA 1156. I am kind of hoping that they have no LGA775 onhand, and offer a good midrange 1156 for it. I don't WANT to upgrade if I don't have to, but if i am 'forced', I won't mind, hahaha.
UGH. Tonights project, complete teardown of the PC.
ARRRRRRRRRG!!!
On the plus side, all that wedding stuff was backed up on my NAS, so I can work on it from my laptop. :-D
I went to turn on my desk top PC this morning to work on some wedding stuff before work, and when I hit the power button, I was greeted with a loud zap or poping noise, along with a blue/green flash from inside the case. I saw the flash through the top case fan on my Antec900 case, and it LOOKED like it was the rear case fan, but I highly doubt it, since i had no power at all when trying to start it after that. Thinking the Silverstone 700w PSU might have taken a dump on me (bought March '09), but it's more likely that a capacitor blew up given the area I saw the flash in. The motherboard is in my sig, 3 year warrenty expires in November, so I am kind of hoping that is what blew, and that I can get a new one.
Hypothetically, lets say that the mobo blew up on me, Do you think that Gigabyte would send me another LGA 775, or would it be more likely that they will send me an newer LGA 1156. I am kind of hoping that they have no LGA775 onhand, and offer a good midrange 1156 for it. I don't WANT to upgrade if I don't have to, but if i am 'forced', I won't mind, hahaha.
UGH. Tonights project, complete teardown of the PC.
ARRRRRRRRRG!!!
On the plus side, all that wedding stuff was backed up on my NAS, so I can work on it from my laptop. :-D