Motherboard smoked, turned off immediately, turned back on and everything works 100 percent for 4 hours, should i be worried?

[TheFinalEpic]

So i was putting my build into the new entho evolv atx tempered glass edition and i don't know what i exactly did, I barely remembered it but I know I was holding a fan header and it was near the CPU Fan header 2 on my motherboard. It turned immediately orange/lava and i smelled smoke the instant it did. I hit the off switch on my power supply fast i could. I panicked, i waited the smoke to finish and turned it back and to my surprise, everything worked.

Stress test CPU with overclock, still works, Ram test, works, Valley the GPU for a bit, still works, computer detects all SSD hard drives, and all fans works on all headers including the one that was burned.

The spot that smoked was next to a CPU fan header like i said and that fan header is still working, still pwm'ing a Corsair SP 120 PWM fan just fine.


Full motherboard view:

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/8582/MSI%20Z97%20G5%20Top.png


Spot burned:

http://imgur.com/a/TsxL3 (real pic)

http://imgur.com/a/VN8N0 (circled from full motherboard pic)


Should i be worried?

It's a z97 gaming 5 motherboard

Its working wonderfully and the fan header near the burned spot seems to be working as if nothing happened along with the rest of the computer. The "Burned" spot still has the same colorization as other fan headers (physically it looks like nothing happened to it/never got burned)

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

It might be fine , just keep a good eye on your system for trouble.

What are your specs?​

 

[TheFinalEpic]

http://valid.x86.fr/c9mvyx

http://imgur.com/a/J8Grf

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Looks decent , that's weird that it burned like that , I wouldn't stress it with more OC.​

 

[TheFinalEpic]

not going to oc higher, huge diminishing returns after 4.4 ghz. But it's ok? lol. The part that was burned still looks like it never got burned in the first place.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Seems to be ok.

 

[dish_moose]

That burned mark near the header likely meant the fan controller has shorted giving full fan power. I doubt you have and control over that fan. IMO, if this is the case, I doubt anything else was affected. How old is the mobo - RMA if it bothers you.
-Bruce

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

He said the fan is running fine.

 

[dish_moose]

Running fine does not mean it can be controlled.
-Bruce

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Yeah I know , but at least the system is running and the header at least works , most of the time they don't work at all.

 

[dish_moose]

Lucky - I've had many occasions working for researchers doing power electronics that when smoke comes out of components they don't tend to work well or at all.
(like you said)
-Bruce

 

[TheFinalEpic]

That burned mark near the header likely meant the fan controller has shorted giving full fan power. I doubt you have and control over that fan. IMO, if this is the case, I doubt anything else was affected. How old is the mobo - RMA if it bothers you.
-Bruce

Motherboard is 1 years old right about now. Still pretty young. Yeah I really don't know what happened, been leaving it on this entire time and again, it still works as if it never happened. Your solution sound like the most likely case and you're right on ur later statements than smoke generally means most components shouldn't be working at all,I was freaking out so much x.x


Edit: I also choose the wrong quote for the right solution, I meant to choose the above quote XD.


I wanted to reply to the "solution", I can control the fan header that got went up into smokes via bios. Still works 100 percent no hiccups.