Re: ASROCK Dual 939 smoking!
Jan Alter wrongfully top posted and wrote:
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The next time you try out your setup, first do it with the motherboard
outside of the case, and don't install anything not absolutely
essential to verify basic operation. You need only the motherboard,
CPU, CPU cooler, 1 memory module, keyboard, video card, power supply,
on/off switch (or use a jumper to briefly short the 2 power-on pins
together on the motherboard), and reset switch. To test the CPU
better, also install a floppy drive so you can run MemTest86 from it.
I've had a floppy drive actually destroy a mb because it was shorting within
it's own case. be considerate not to hook any peripherals up other than the
graphics card which you have reasonable expectations of being OK, and if the
floppy happens to be old try a new one instead.
That's a rare defect, and it's far more common for a floppy drive to
cause damage when when its power cable is plugged in wrong, with either
the +5V or +12V line shorted to a ground pin.
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