Did I just fry by mobo?

[alexko9]

So I was trying to get fans running on my new mobo, and by my own stupidity, I plugged in the 4 pin female connector from the end of the Peripheral wire in my PSU, to a sysfan slot next to the big 24 pin connector to power the mobo.

When I turned it on, smoke came out, i took out the 4 pin immediately, and then went to reconfigure the connections and realized i didn't plug the fan into the slot on my GPU, that's why it wasn't running.

Anyways I got it all connected again, but now it won't run, and I took out the 24pin and it smells like smoke.

Right now I disconnected it and just letting it lay there, but did I just kill my new mobo?

BTW computer was still functioning when I made smoke come out the first time, though I turned it off to go reconfigure my wires.

 

[TechyInAZ]

LOL, probably. I've never heard of anybody doing that before.

 

[alexko9]

LOL, probably. I've never heard of anybody doing that before.

NVM it turns one, but only when the system fans are not plugged into my main GPU, now this is really confusing.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Your motherboard is is fried in some manner , time for a new one.

 

[alexko9]

Your motherboard is is fried in some manner , time for a new one.

The only thing it seems to have done is killed the chan_fan slot that I plugged the perif plug into, though I had some other slots to plug in my fans and it runs fine now!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Keep an eye on it there still could be issues , I hope that's all it damaged.

 

[alexko9]

Keep an eye on it there still could be issues , I hope that's all it damaged.

If there are any issues, won't I juts get blue screens?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

With smoke you no something burned , just look for shutdowns , instability etc.

 

[alexko9]

With smoke you no something burned , just look for shutdowns , instability etc.

If anything does come up, you think sending the Mobo dead and saying it's DOA will get me a free one, or can they tell?

 

[EthanG]

YOLO

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Not if they find evidence of burning , RMA wil be denied.

 

[kira70591]

If there was smoke I would talk to them and see if you can exchange it (doubtful). I would definitely replace it though. If there was smoke then something started to go. Not worth taking the chance that something could short and start a fire. A motherboard is a lot cheaper than a new house. Chalk it up to a learning experience.