Re: ASRock x79 Extreme6 - blew a capacitor(?), fried a fan header...

A clear picture of a burn on the back of my case: [url]http://i.imgur.com/S2EBFbw.jpg[/url]
Prime95 finishing running for 24 hours: [url]http://i.imgur.com/U69TeY1.png[/url]

If anyone can weigh in on the most likely component to have blown, it'd be nice to have more information.Re: ASRock x79 Extreme6 - blew a cap... for 24 hours:

Re: ASRock x79 Extreme6 - blew a capacitor(?), fried a fan header...


I didn't come here to be called stupid, I came here for advice.



I'm guessing it was a fuse or something of that nature as well. I've been running Prime95 for 20 hours now with no problems whatsoever. While I know this is neither foolproof nor comprehensive, it will generally shake out any voltage stability issues you might have. Generally. Everything on the board functions, including my fans, PS/2 ports, etc. So I didn't blow the super i/o chip, that's good. I really think it was...

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...