Here's what happened: I noticed my PSU was very hot to the touch, so I decided I should plug in a molex to 4 pin fan adapter and connect it to the PWR_FAN header on my motherboard to see if it was having issues spinning or something. I dunno. I thought it would be nice to be able to monitor my PSU fan. So I plugged it in. A capacitor or something exploded. There was a loud POP followed by smoke rolling out of my case.
Why was I plugging a molex adapter into a fan connector and plugging it into the board? That would mean it's SUPPLYING power, which is also what the board does, meaning I was feeding power into the header. Of course it would explode. Complete brain fart on my part.
I immediately unplugged the power, unplugged the 4 pin fan adapter from the fan header, and tried to restart my computer...and it booted. It works fine. Runs smooth as butter. There are no issues...yet.
Naked eye inspection of the board yields no real information. None of the tall gold plated capacitors are visibly damaged and none of the small ceramic ones seem to be either. The first tiny capacitor under the fan header itself (to the left of the header in the accompanying image) does seem a bit different than the rest, but I'm unsure if that's damage or just a board imperfection. It might have been the one that blew, if it was a capacitor.
image: http://i.imgur.com/vwh7M65.jpg
So, my question is, will this cause me any real problems down the line, aside from being unable to use the PWR_FAN1 header (I plugged another fan I had lying around into it, it's completely dead)? I can still RMA the board, or, optionally, could have the capacitor (whichever one blew) replaced if needed, but if it's not necessary, then I probably won't. What do you guys think?
Specs:
* Case: Cooler Master HAF XM
* Motherboard: ASRock x79 Extreme6
* PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 V2
* CPU: Intel Core i7-3820
* HSF: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
* GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST Superclocked
* Memory: 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM @ 1866MHz
* HDD: 2x Seagate Barracuda (SATA II @ 7200 RPM)
* OS: Windows 7 Professional
Why was I plugging a molex adapter into a fan connector and plugging it into the board? That would mean it's SUPPLYING power, which is also what the board does, meaning I was feeding power into the header. Of course it would explode. Complete brain fart on my part.
I immediately unplugged the power, unplugged the 4 pin fan adapter from the fan header, and tried to restart my computer...and it booted. It works fine. Runs smooth as butter. There are no issues...yet.
Naked eye inspection of the board yields no real information. None of the tall gold plated capacitors are visibly damaged and none of the small ceramic ones seem to be either. The first tiny capacitor under the fan header itself (to the left of the header in the accompanying image) does seem a bit different than the rest, but I'm unsure if that's damage or just a board imperfection. It might have been the one that blew, if it was a capacitor.
image: http://i.imgur.com/vwh7M65.jpg
So, my question is, will this cause me any real problems down the line, aside from being unable to use the PWR_FAN1 header (I plugged another fan I had lying around into it, it's completely dead)? I can still RMA the board, or, optionally, could have the capacitor (whichever one blew) replaced if needed, but if it's not necessary, then I probably won't. What do you guys think?
Specs:
* Case: Cooler Master HAF XM
* Motherboard: ASRock x79 Extreme6
* PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 V2
* CPU: Intel Core i7-3820
* HSF: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
* GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST Superclocked
* Memory: 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM @ 1866MHz
* HDD: 2x Seagate Barracuda (SATA II @ 7200 RPM)
* OS: Windows 7 Professional
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