Re: Ammo needed for rmr (mosfets)

Thank you guys, you've all been very helpful. Just gathering the info in case newegg contacts me. And The board was pricey, hence my reservations about rmr (too much fine print when returning electronics). But newegg has a good rep, so I'll cross my fingers. I find it kind of strange that the board died 5 days before I'd have to contact asus for service.

Re: Ammo needed for rmr (mosfets)

Can bad capacitors cause a mosfet to blow up though?

Re: Ammo needed for rmr (mosfets)

Forgot to mention, the board gets power, but prior to it being dead, I was was getting ide detection errors, random restarts, memory detection errors until finally it would continually restart, lockup on windows screen and then I didn't even get a post screen or beep.

Re: Ammo needed for rmr (mosfets)

newegg, I haven't even had the board a month.

Re: Ammo needed for rmr (mosfets)

This is the best i can do, cause the boards in the mail. opt fan 4 pin is 1st white pin to the left of satas in figure 9. And the browned part is labeled esata12 straight above the top most fin and 1st right next to the cap.

hope that makes sense. :/

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This is the best i can do, cause the boards in the mail. opt fan 4 pin is 1st white pin to the left of satas in figure 9. And the

Hi everyone. I recently had some really bad luck with an asus p5n32-e sli. The mosfet above an optional fan pin exploded, closer inspection of the board revealed a somewhat tarnished color on the printed part listed as sata(near the io shield). As I have no clue what happened, what hypothetically would cause this? And is it all on the user end in terms of errors?

psu is a thermaltake toughpower 850 watt
And any place where metal on the riser pin areas could short were covered by mylar.

Any info will be very much appreciated, as I just spent a good deal of...