Hello there, something strange and quite unexpected happened yesterday. I turned on my PC and noticed a strange burning smell and flames being erupted from what I thought was my GTX 1080.
I took it to my local tech guy to check if my cpu and my motherboard were fried and it turns out that my motherboard was the only component that wasn't working. I took my parts back home to hook everything up to my old motherboard which I had laying around to see if my GPU was still in working condition and to my surprise it was.
My question is what do you think caused this fire?
Can it be from the GPU that ruined my MB or was it my PSU that did it? any help would be greatly appreciated. There were no previous problems that would've lead me to think that such a thing would happen, no boot up problems no crashes nothing.
MB - MSI Z270 Gaming PRO
CPU i7 7700k
GPU GTX 1080 FTW (EVGA)
PSU Corsair CX 750
I'd like to also add that nothing was overclocked if that makes any difference.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post.
I took it to my local tech guy to check if my cpu and my motherboard were fried and it turns out that my motherboard was the only component that wasn't working. I took my parts back home to hook everything up to my old motherboard which I had laying around to see if my GPU was still in working condition and to my surprise it was.
My question is what do you think caused this fire?
Can it be from the GPU that ruined my MB or was it my PSU that did it? any help would be greatly appreciated. There were no previous problems that would've lead me to think that such a thing would happen, no boot up problems no crashes nothing.
MB - MSI Z270 Gaming PRO
CPU i7 7700k
GPU GTX 1080 FTW (EVGA)
PSU Corsair CX 750
I'd like to also add that nothing was overclocked if that makes any difference.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post.
