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#1 Nov 21 2010 at 9:37 PM Rating: Decent
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So last night I tried to move a motherboard from one desktop into a new case, with a new power supply. Unfortunately, I think the power supply was bad, because shortly after hooking everything up properly the smell of ozone came out of the case and I unplugged it immediately. Now, even when I hook the motherboard up to the old PSU (with all of its old components, so I know the PSU is powerful enough), the power light on the motherboard comes on, but nothing will power up - there's no beeps, no lights, and no fans or drives spin up. Am I basically looking at a shot motherboard at this point, or is there some magic fix within reach (not likely)? Thanks.
#2 Nov 22 2010 at 2:41 AM Rating: Good
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Sounds like you may have fried something around the VRM's. Sometimes a voltage spike breaks through the protections just long enough to nuke a component that was about to fail. Check for some burn spots around the CPU socket--that's were my Gigabyte got nailed once. Hope you can still RMA it.

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