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  • pentium
    Badcaps Legend
    • Mar 2006
    • 2778
    • Canada
    #1

    This card will self-destruct in ten seconds

    I have this awesome USB/SATA combo card that uses decent chipsets (NEC and Silicon Image). Currently I only use the SATA controller on it so I can back my system up onto another drive.
    Anyways, a month back Windows told me that power to a USB hub had been exceeded, this was followed by the smell of something on fire. The system still ran and I never thought about it. Then today I had the system apart to install a liquid cooling rig and when I pull out the card...





    Woah. It looks liek the poly fuse nuked itself even though there was nothing plugged into the USB ports, It even proceeded to burn up the other side of the board as well.
    Thankfully I still have one USB port and both SATA ports still working but what on earth happened? I would assume that under no load stuff like this would not happen.
    Find Nedry!


    Check the Vending machines!!

    <----Computer says I need more beer.
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    • Scenic
      o.O
      • Sep 2007
      • 2642
      • Germany
      #2
      Re: This card will self-destruct in ten seconds

      short between the layers maybe..?!
      really odd..

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