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Overloaded PCIE 16x slot, saw smoke.

ShrimpBrime said:
I cannot give advice without seeing pictures of the area where the smoke had appeared. Nor can anyone else.

But given the age, and if it still works, rock it out until you can build a new rig.

My 2 cents, and it's worth it's weight in copper waterblocks.
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Photos see below: I can't get a good photo of the slot as the motherboard is covered by a plate..the smoke came out closer to the bottom part of the slot/or card.


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I dont see anything that stands out. No burnt areas or immediate damages.

Video card looks clean too.

If it works, just use it. Save the coin for a new rig.
 
Mixing cables from other manufacturers is a big no no. Everyone has their connections wired up differently.

The only cable that is cross compatible is the one that goes from the wall socket and into your PSU. Everything else....don't even think about it. Hopefully there is no long term lasting damage to your hardware
 
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FreedomEclipse said:
Mixing cables from other manufacturers is a big no no. Everyone has their connections wired up up differently.

The only cable that is cross compatible is the one that goes from the wall socket and into your PSU. Everything else....don't even think about it. Hopefully there is no long term lasting damage to your hardware
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Noted, this time it simply didn't boot at all with the antec cabel connected..should be safe on this mistake.
 
gaximodo said:
I really appreaciated your time going through my issue. Thank you Bill_Bright! And all others of course :)

I had the Antec PSU for 12 years, and it was hot here in Western Australia the day it blew up (42 °C ).

I was trying to simplify my situation, what really happened was I used one module cable (its longer) from Antec PSU on the Corsair, assumed it will be compatible but the board won't boot, so I unplugged all module cables on the PSU while the other ends are still connected to devices, so only 24pin and 8pin is connected to see if it will boot.

It booted, then the smoke happened so I shut the power immediately. I believe the card was drawing too much power from the PCIE slot on the board, with the PCIE 8 pin connected to the graphics card, not connected to PSU. I checked both card and board, can't see any visible damage. Rest you know.

I stopped using the Antec cable, everything boots fine, and now have the card in secondary PCIE slot, and a sound card in the first PCIE slot, so far no sign of abnormality.

I will test the outlets also, thank you again for the advice. it may have something to do with the old power board also died from the scene.
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Ok open your eyes, modular cable ends are only standardized going into accessories (motherboards, gpus, drives) The ends going into the powersupply are proprietary at that point (money).
 
jmcslob said:
I think Bill's right and you arched some dust.
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Yeah after seeing those photo's I have to agree as well.

@gaximodo
Seems like you're fine. I'd get a vacuum to suck out all the dust, but otherwise it looks ok.
If it were my board, I'd unscrew and flip that fan over so it'll suck air out instead of blowing it in. Might prevent a similar problem in future.
 
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