EVGA X58 SLI LE

[Ka0sX]

Well i put my pc together yesterday Water cooled

I got all my loop done then jumped the psu to see if everything was ok

I had no power going to the motherboard at all the 24pin wasnt connected neither was the 8pin

I then hit the power button on my psu and bang bobo caught fire and flame + lots of smoke

I cant see any burn marks on the board

I have no idea what could make a board do this with no power

Any Ideas

I threw the board in the bin because last time i tried to RMA with evga i got told it was my fault and that was a x58 classified

cheers

[eva2000]

Faulty psu could cause it. Several years back I had a psu when turned on would trip my houses safety switch. Send it back to retailer for rma, and they said when they tested the psu it literally blow up and burnt the power board it was attached to! The psu itself looked fine from appearances but had become a hardware killer LOL

But to have no power to board and do this strange, was power to GPU connected with GPU installed on board ?

[Ka0sX]

Originally Posted by eva2000

Faulty psu could cause it. Several years back I had a psu when turned on would trip my houses safety switch. Send it back to retailer for rma, and they said when they tested the psu it literally blow up and burnt the power board it was attached to! The psu itself looked fine from appearances but had become a hardware killer LOL

But to have no power to board and do this strange, was power to GPU connected with GPU installed on board ?

Thanks George but the thing is the mobo was not connected to the psu just pump and fans ETC ETC

[eva2000]

post some close up photos of the burnt/damage burn so we can see

[Ka0sX]

Originally Posted by eva2000

post some close up photos of the burnt/damage burn so we can see

There is no burn marks on the mobo at all

One of the fans i have on the rad i just looked and there are burn marks on it / melted

will post a photo in a min

[Spork!]

Sorry if this sounds n00bish, but I must be missing something. What caught fire? MB or PSU? If no power to MB and it lit up, then how could that possibly be? If no power connected and the PSU went bang, why are you blaming your MB?

[Ka0sX]

Originally Posted by Spork!

Sorry if this sounds n00bish, but I must be missing something. What caught fire? MB or PSU? If no power to MB and it lit up, then how could that possibly be? If no power connected and the PSU went bang, why are you blaming your MB?

Yeah i know the mobo was not connect at all the mobo was working before i did the water setup

There are burn mark on a fan cable and its been melted

Adding pics soon

Originally Posted by eva2000

Faulty psu could cause it. Several years back I had a psu when turned on would trip my houses safety switch. Send it back to retailer for rma, and they said when they tested the psu it literally blow up and burnt the power board it was attached to! The psu itself looked fine from appearances but had become a hardware killer LOL

But to have no power to board and do this strange, was power to GPU connected with GPU installed on board ?

Yeah i know i didnt have nothing in the board at all no gpu nothing

[CHemical.]

wanna sell the board ?

[Ka0sX]

ill sell the board for 200.00 and that will include the fullboad waterblock



EDIT only thing i can think of is that the board died while taking it out and putting the fullboard block on

[mrpiccolod]

Originally Posted by CHemical.

wanna sell the board ?

lol I'm guessing your thinking what I am and that the mobo is still working

OP I honestly cannot see why you think the board is useless now? As you said it was not connected and there appears to be no damage to it (except maybe from when you threw it in the bin). It sounds like your PSU is FUBAR and that's what you should be chucking along with that fan.

Am I missing something here??

EDIT: LOL ROFL Ok I see it now you wrote BOBO instead of MOBO in the OP quite confusing. So the mobo caught fire did it? Pictures would be nice. Is the board functioning or are you unable to test it?

[Ka0sX]

Originally Posted by mrpiccolod

lol I'm guessing your thinking what I am and that the mobo is still working

OP I honestly cannot see why you think the board is useless now? As you said it was not connected and there appears to be no damage to it (except maybe from when you threw it in the bin). It sounds like your PSU is FUBAR and that's what you should be chucking along with that fan.

Am I missing something here??

I know its very strange i got it out of the bin hehehehe

Just to let you all know iam not a noob the mobo is showing FF on boot

The psu is corsair HX1000 it powers everything else just fine but maybe i should throw that in the bin aswell lol

i have another psu here just a cheap 450watt and same thing just FF

[mrpiccolod]

Hmm its hard to tell if it was your PSU or just something in the WC setup. I'd be very wary of testing the PSU with new components, maybe RMA it so you don't risk any further damage and let corsair test it or if you have some old components (that you care little for) you could test it out on.

Whatever happened it wasn't your mobo's fault so go easy on the little guy. He was probably minding his own business until his mate the rad fan went up in flames and ran straight at him.

[dembones]

maybe it had something to do with grounding with the case?

[n3wbi379]

Call me n3wbi3 but its impossible for the mb to get burnt with no power connection isnt it?
Iv made 3 mb catch on fire and all 3 have been connected.....
Also i once tried the safety bin trick on a psu and blew it up and since on iv used 1 of these for my water... works 100% and safe.

Also check ur WB is on correct and not short circuiting anything.

[-Cypher-]

240v arcing to the motherboard from the PSU? Bloody unlikely and very possibly physics-defying, but then again the whole idea of a mobo "firing" when it's not connected to any power source is pretty out there as well.

Residual energy perhaps?