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First: Excuse me for my bad English
Second: The problem
Here's the spec of my homebuild pc
Case Tsunami VA3400BWA (with 400 watt power supply)
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard
Pentium IV 3.2C
2 X 512 Mo Ram DDR400 in dual channel config (Kingston)
HDD: Western Digital Raptor (WD740GD)
PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128 Mo
DVD Burner 16X (LG)
Floppy
Windows XP Home Edition
I've done all the setup yesterday. Everything's going fine.
After the first boot I gone in the BIOS to check if everything detected
corretly and all seems to be OK
I've create 3 partitions on the drive and format the first in NTFS. After
that I've install windows without any problems. So the computer work well
for approximatively 1 hour (maybe a little less)
Then the system boot up in windows and the little presentation of windows XP
begin. Just after that (maybe 20 seconds), I smell that something is burning
in the computer. I unplug it immediately and check in the computer and Oh
no!!! The ICH5R chipset is burned (melted). I re-check in the book to see if
I have done something wrong but I could't find nothing.
The mobo is really dead. I've tried to put power back, but when I plug the
power without pressing the power button, the ICH5R chipset become to be hot
again. I've also tried to press the power button, but nothing occurs.
I've bring back my computer to the store to see with them if they view
something wrong with my setup. They tell me they don't see nothing and that
they will replace the motherboard and check the HDD.
My question is: Can some bad connection in the computer can do that and if
yes, which one (USB, Firewire) ? Can that be the power supply and if yes,
how can I see that ?
I will try to rebuilt my pc myself. But before I do that, I want to know if
this
trouble have something to do with my installation, incompatible
hardware or a default in the motherboard.
Thanks for your precious help.
Ian
First: Excuse me for my bad English
Second: The problem
Here's the spec of my homebuild pc
Case Tsunami VA3400BWA (with 400 watt power supply)
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard
Pentium IV 3.2C
2 X 512 Mo Ram DDR400 in dual channel config (Kingston)
HDD: Western Digital Raptor (WD740GD)
PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128 Mo
DVD Burner 16X (LG)
Floppy
Windows XP Home Edition
I've done all the setup yesterday. Everything's going fine.
After the first boot I gone in the BIOS to check if everything detected
corretly and all seems to be OK
I've create 3 partitions on the drive and format the first in NTFS. After
that I've install windows without any problems. So the computer work well
for approximatively 1 hour (maybe a little less)
Then the system boot up in windows and the little presentation of windows XP
begin. Just after that (maybe 20 seconds), I smell that something is burning
in the computer. I unplug it immediately and check in the computer and Oh
no!!! The ICH5R chipset is burned (melted). I re-check in the book to see if
I have done something wrong but I could't find nothing.
The mobo is really dead. I've tried to put power back, but when I plug the
power without pressing the power button, the ICH5R chipset become to be hot
again. I've also tried to press the power button, but nothing occurs.
I've bring back my computer to the store to see with them if they view
something wrong with my setup. They tell me they don't see nothing and that
they will replace the motherboard and check the HDD.
My question is: Can some bad connection in the computer can do that and if
yes, which one (USB, Firewire) ? Can that be the power supply and if yes,
how can I see that ?
I will try to rebuilt my pc myself. But before I do that, I want to know if
this
trouble have something to do with my installation, incompatible
hardware or a default in the motherboard.
Thanks for your precious help.
Ian