Help! My computer blew up!?!

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My damn (home) computer blew up last night! I was sitting there with my back turned to it and all of a sudden "!Boom!", it sounded like someone clapped their hands real hard. Then the monitor went off and the computer shut down. Shortly after, I noticed the horrible smell and saw the smoke comming out of the back of it. I unhooked it and opened it up and besides the smoke and smell, I noticed a blown capacitor laying in the bottom of the case. Well after I aired it out over night, I brought it in to work with me (I work for an internet service provider...) We opened it back up and removed all the cards (its a Celeron 500 cpu, i'm not sure of what make the moterboard it is) I'm just hoping that my Delta 66 card is ok... Well, one guy said that it appears that the motherboard barffed out a capacitor... with the cards removed I could see the black spot where the capacitor was, right between the first two slots which had an ISA modem in one and the other was empty. a section of the connectors in the slot where the modem was was bent, so I dont know if the modem is ok... But anyway, I'm going to put my cards into a machine that we're not using at the moment and see what works. However, I need a new motherboard now but I need to test my Celeron to make sure it works. I think one of the guys I work with can find me something to test it on. What's your all's comments on this? Does anyone know of a good motherboard to recommend?

Thanks, AlChuck for the spelling correction!

[Edited by dabluesman on 08-31-2000 at 14:55]
 
ASUS CUBX, ASUS P3BF

CUBX is more upgradable, supports CU PIII FC-PGA chips. Also has ATA/66 built-in, not that that's a big issue.
 
Uuhh... that's "capacitor"

dabluesman,

Whoa! How did that happen? Does the tech at work have any idea?

Anyway, the general consensus these days seems to be stay with a 440BX-based motherboard and SDRAM; stay away from the 810/820 "Camino" motherboards and RDRAM. ASUS seems to get the most plugs.

Good luck!

-AlChuck
 
Nevermind, Emeric beat me to it (you bastard). I'd go for a CUBX myself. Or maybe a BP6 if you're brave and into dual processors...

/Ola
 
Hey AlChuck, that's the second time in 2 days our posts have been a minute apart.... weird.. hehehh what are the odds?
 
Synch-ro-ni-ci-ty... synch-ro-ni-ci-ty... synch-ro-ni-ci-ty...

It's weird how that works. At work I almost collided twice in the last 2 weeks at the same spot with the same guy shooting out of an adjoining hallway while I had a fresh hot cup of coffee in my hands... and at least three times in the last week when I need to go to the can, suddenly the always-empty stall is occupied every time.

-AlChuck
 
Congrats, wish I had been there. In 7+ years working with PCs (first as a salesman, then a tech, now as Helpdesk/tech) I have never seen a PC explode before (I have seen power supplies spew the ol' mushroom cloud, but only when some idiot plugged them in wrong). Closest thing I saw was a PC that had collected so much cat hair through an open slot near the floor that it caught on fire.

Seriously, if your explosion was due to a power surge from an outside source, you may be the owner of "an ex-parrot". But if that were the case you should have noticed other collateral damage elsewhere in your office. I wish you luck...
 
Thanks for the warning

>Closest thing I saw was a PC that had collected so much cat >hair through an open slot near the floor that it caught on >fire.

I've already lost plenty of equipment due to these damn furbious meowlers. Trashed a whole computer and several CDRW drives, not to mention umpteen floppy drives.
 
I dont know how it happened. But since the capacitor that blew off of the motherboard was right next to where the ISA modem was we feel that the modem probably did it. But anyway, i'm now in the market for a motherboard. I'll probably go with an ASUS. We've had servers running on ASUS motherboards for three or more years, 24 hours a day, every day, and they have all worked fine. My Celeron processor is the kind that does not sit flat on the motherboard but sits on its side connected to an adapter card that fits into a slot on the motherboard... anyone ever seen this? Thanks, I'll check out CUBX also.
 
Drstawl - yeah, tell me about it. How do *you* get the cat hair off the rollers inside your mouse?
 
dabluesman said:
My Celeron processor is the kind that does not sit flat on the motherboard but sits on its side connected to an adapter card that fits into a slot on the motherboard... anyone ever seen this? Thanks, I'll check out CUBX also.
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You've got a Slot-1 Celeron, so make sure you get a Slot-1 mainboard. Abit and Asus are the two brands I know best, although CUBX is probably OK too. I feel your pain -- my power supply blew last week and fried my motherboard, my modem, and 64MB of RAM! Lousy cheap power supplies...

MikeDog
 
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