I just got a Gigabyte G1.Sniper H6 motherboard, and I installed it and it fried everything.
It wasn't registering anything connected to the sata port so I removed the SDD and installed an old HDD I had lying around. Immediately, fumes came out of the HDD.
So then I thought I'd troubleshoot and installed a DVD drive. Same thing: fumes came pouring out.
At this point I realized I probably fried my SDD, although I didn't see any fumes.
I put the SDD back into the old motherboard, the stock Lenovo Thinkcentre E73 motherboard.
Everything powered on, but did not register the SDD which only yesterday had worked.
So I'm pretty sure the SDD is fried, but I don't know why. I'm afraid of getting a new SDD just to have that one fry as well.
It can't be the PSU, because the PSU works just fine on the Lenovo mobo, and doesn't fry the other DVD drive I had laying around.
The Lenovo has 2 separate 4-pin power connectors, one for the PSU and one for the SDD.
The Gigabyte has one single 8-pin connector, so I have to plug both the PSU and the SDD's power connectors side by side.
Could that be the culprit?
Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte G1.Sniper H6
CPU: Intel i5-4460S
PSU: Sentey XPlus Power 725W (XPP725-HS)
SDD: Crucial MX300 525GB
It wasn't registering anything connected to the sata port so I removed the SDD and installed an old HDD I had lying around. Immediately, fumes came out of the HDD.
So then I thought I'd troubleshoot and installed a DVD drive. Same thing: fumes came pouring out.
At this point I realized I probably fried my SDD, although I didn't see any fumes.
I put the SDD back into the old motherboard, the stock Lenovo Thinkcentre E73 motherboard.
Everything powered on, but did not register the SDD which only yesterday had worked.
So I'm pretty sure the SDD is fried, but I don't know why. I'm afraid of getting a new SDD just to have that one fry as well.
It can't be the PSU, because the PSU works just fine on the Lenovo mobo, and doesn't fry the other DVD drive I had laying around.
The Lenovo has 2 separate 4-pin power connectors, one for the PSU and one for the SDD.
The Gigabyte has one single 8-pin connector, so I have to plug both the PSU and the SDD's power connectors side by side.
Could that be the culprit?
Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte G1.Sniper H6
CPU: Intel i5-4460S
PSU: Sentey XPlus Power 725W (XPP725-HS)
SDD: Crucial MX300 525GB