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Ok, this problem is geared toward people who have had a good amount of experience with building PC's, and/or know alot about electrical damage to various computer components. If you are willing to help then read up.
Yesterday as I was half asleep at night, I was getting ready to try out installing a second HDD on my 3 WEEK old computer I had just built. Now, as I have never actually installed a slave drive, I had problems with getting my cables all straightened out. Well, for some stupid reason when I went to plug in my original HDD's power cable, I left the computer ON! Immediatly as I touched the cable to the HDD, a bright blue spark awoke me and I witnessed the dimise of my computer before my eyes. Sure enough I knew for sure the CPU was damaged, so I went and bought another Athlon XP 2500+ for about 100usd(10 more than when I bought it). So, I take out the old CPU and yep, it has the look of being scoarched, as if it were overheated from a bad OC. Well, I went to boot, and no responce what so ever, not even the Mobo speaker indicating any problems. What was odd to me is that, when I was being PO'ed at myself, I notice that my ethernet still lit up when I had the PSU still plugged in. My guess is that the PSU is still ok, and that part of the mobo is dead. I am going to replace the fried MSI K7N2 Delta with a similar MSI nforce2 board tomarrow, unless someone thinks otherwise within the next few hours. If anyone has witnessed a similar event, then I would like to know the likelyhood of my other parts being fried as well. At the time of when my stupidity struck, I had my 250 dollar Radeon 9800np plugged in, a 300 dollar M-Audio soundcard plugged in(but not with a direct power cable like the gfx card has), my 2 sticks of 80 dollar 256mb PC3200 generic DDR, the 52x24x52 CDRW and ofcourse the HDD I went to plug in, my 40GB Maxtor 7200 drive. Incase it makes a difference, the PSU I have hooked up is a generic 500w one. Hopefully I can get some insite on whether I should worry about my other components that were plugged in at the time. I lay the dollar amount into the hands of your kind information.
Ok, this problem is geared toward people who have had a good amount of experience with building PC's, and/or know alot about electrical damage to various computer components. If you are willing to help then read up.
Yesterday as I was half asleep at night, I was getting ready to try out installing a second HDD on my 3 WEEK old computer I had just built. Now, as I have never actually installed a slave drive, I had problems with getting my cables all straightened out. Well, for some stupid reason when I went to plug in my original HDD's power cable, I left the computer ON! Immediatly as I touched the cable to the HDD, a bright blue spark awoke me and I witnessed the dimise of my computer before my eyes. Sure enough I knew for sure the CPU was damaged, so I went and bought another Athlon XP 2500+ for about 100usd(10 more than when I bought it). So, I take out the old CPU and yep, it has the look of being scoarched, as if it were overheated from a bad OC. Well, I went to boot, and no responce what so ever, not even the Mobo speaker indicating any problems. What was odd to me is that, when I was being PO'ed at myself, I notice that my ethernet still lit up when I had the PSU still plugged in. My guess is that the PSU is still ok, and that part of the mobo is dead. I am going to replace the fried MSI K7N2 Delta with a similar MSI nforce2 board tomarrow, unless someone thinks otherwise within the next few hours. If anyone has witnessed a similar event, then I would like to know the likelyhood of my other parts being fried as well. At the time of when my stupidity struck, I had my 250 dollar Radeon 9800np plugged in, a 300 dollar M-Audio soundcard plugged in(but not with a direct power cable like the gfx card has), my 2 sticks of 80 dollar 256mb PC3200 generic DDR, the 52x24x52 CDRW and ofcourse the HDD I went to plug in, my 40GB Maxtor 7200 drive. Incase it makes a difference, the PSU I have hooked up is a generic 500w one. Hopefully I can get some insite on whether I should worry about my other components that were plugged in at the time. I lay the dollar amount into the hands of your kind information.
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