Re: [OT] Fried motherboard

2002-12-10 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:01:02AM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: > > probably. I've never had a power supply die on me. maybe I'm lucky. > > I've even plugged a power supply that was set to 110V into a 220V > > circut, tripped a breaker, but the power supply itself was fine(haven't > > tried going the

Re: [OT] Fried motherboard

2002-12-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > probably. I've never had a power supply die on me. maybe I'm lucky. > > I've even plugged a power supply that was set to 110V into a 220V > > circut, tripped a breaker, but the power supply itself was fine(haven't > > tried going the other way around)

Re: [OT] Fried motherboard

2002-12-10 Thread Rich Puhek
probably. I've never had a power supply die on me. maybe I'm lucky. I've even plugged a power supply that was set to 110V into a 220V circut, tripped a breaker, but the power supply itself was fine(haven't tried going the other way around). I've done that (220V setting on a supply, plugged in

Re: [OT] Fried motherboard

2002-12-09 Thread nate
> 1.) Can the processor be damaged in the process of motherboard being fried > (PIII processor)? yes, depends how it was fried though. You gotta test it. note that if you test a fried cpu in another board it may kill that board too. > 2.) Can any cards (ie video card) or RAM be damaged in the p

[OT] Fried motherboard

2002-12-09 Thread dbalder
Hi all, A few weeks ago my power supply died (smell of burning plastic and other components of the power supply). I would later realise that I *used* to have PIII system. It as a VIA chipset system with on-board audio. I changed the power supply (to a higher wattage, power supply for Pentium IV).