July 10, 2004

FIRE!

I was happily using my computer yesterday when suddenly it froze, and a very nasty smell started to pour from under the desk... with lightning speed I switched it off, pulled all the cables and got the case open... I could hear a kinda cracking noise and by this time a very strong burning plastic smell had filled the room - so much so I had to leave the room for half hour... later, after careful inspection I discovered this:

The motherboard had suffered already from the infamous batch of Luxon capacitors, and 3 of them had previously domed, but it seems after all this time it had finally given up and that 'lump' is where one of the power mosfets had started to combust! Luckily I killed it all before anything else started to burn... seems all but the motherboard survived, but I've decided to take the chance to upgrade anyway...

This stylish bit of silicon is already on it's way to me (along with a few other choice components)... update on Monday (hopefully)
Posted by Antony on July 10, 2004 09:08 PM | TrackBack
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