msi burn out

[IronBits]

Pic One (http://dbestern.com/msi/msia.jpg) 107KB
Pic Two (http://dbestern.com/msi/msib.jpg) 105KB
1024x768 -- It's dead :(

[Paratima]

:scared: Yow! Tough luck, IB. That's what happens when ya let the magic smoke out.

Just age, or OC'ing, or what do you think?

[IronBits]

Dunno, no overclocking, no nothing. :(
Maybe that was the problem ;)

[PY 222]

I hope you gave it a proper burial. Its days as a productive member of your pharm, is over.

Time to get a new one.

[Jetta]

WOW! that sucks! well at least it didnt catch on fire like my asus did last year! :mad:

[ECL]

Is that a single or dual-proc MSI board?

I've been thinking of using an MSI dual to upgrade an old box when I get home next week, but now I'm thinking MSI ... fire hazard ... MSI ... fire hazard.

Is there any sort of autopsy info you could give us about this thing?

[IronBits]

Single. I know nothing, other than it just died :(
ASUS makes an excellant Dual tho :D

[ECL]

Well, I have given some thought to the ASUS A7M266-D/L. I've got a couple of ASUS boards and have a somewhat ambivalent attitude to them. Word on the hardware-fetishist sites is that Gigabyte is now a credible contender as well. But I've heard that the MSI K7D Master-L is pretty good. The only brand I won't consider is Tyan. Bad rep on the duals, and the Tyans I've owned have all been flaky.

So there are a number of candidates which are reputed to be decent performers. All within ~$50 of each other. And I haven't built a system with any of 'em. This may come down to a blind toss at a dartboard or something.

[IronBits]

It is getting tough to choose that's for sure.
I have an ASUS A7M266, rock solid, so I went with the all AMD board A7M266-D.
It semed to be snappier, compared to the other 2 Tyans I had at the time.
It became my favorite board, but I've never had the pleasure of testing all the boards, so sharpen up that dart before you toss it :D

[ulv]

My experience:
Tyan 2466- very stable, have worked with different kind of memory (unreg. Samsung 2700, unreg. Micron 2100, reg. Crucial 2100), not much to tweak in bios.
MSI K7D-L- very stable (two boards), would not run stable with Samsung 2700 RAM, stable with Micron and Crucial, a lot to tweak in bios.
From what I've read and experienced, memory choice is very important. I find very much info on the forums of 2CPU website.

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Ouchie IB, Looks like hmm what can I say.. You got Spiked... You weren't Crunchin' Seti at the time were ya.. maybe the PSU decided that it liked the look of the Gaussian Power Levels decided to emulate it.. unfortunatly PC's can't jump to Warp.. Mine you at least you got most of a working PC left, my mate did a normal reboot once to update something and Smoked his entire machine... Dead / Seriously damage PIII, 256Mb Ram gone, HD very suspect... Major components dead.. even the monitor got spiked to death and smoked...

[IronBits]

Well, I finally found the article(s) that may explain the whole problem.
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/09/29/1613214.shtml?tid=137
http://www.e-insite.net/index.asp?layout=article&articleId=CA255062&title=Search+Results&publication=e-insite&webzine=e-insite
http://www.amdmb.com/#News-5171
http://www.ttiinc.com/MarketEye/zogbi_on_passives_20021014.asp

Taiwanese Capacitors Leaking, Exploding
Posted by Hemos on Monday November 04, @01:02PM
from the ka-BLAM dept.
ackthpt writes "A few astute slashdot readers were on to something back when this article was published. After a tip (at e-insight.net) on failing caps over at amdmb I did a little looking around and found this article by Dennis Zogbi on TTI Inc.'s site, which goes into more detail. In a nutshell, many motherboards are now failing due to electolytic capacitors made with an inferior water-based electolyte. Within days or a few months these capacitors build up hydrogen gas and blow the rubber bung out the end of the capacitor, leaking electolyte and causing havoc. The problem may be widespread, as many consumer electronics made with these capacitors may also fail prematurely. Gary Headlee specializes in Abit motherboards, but as his FAQ states, he will work on other makes and the FAQ has more info on capacitor problems."
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/04/1945239.shtml?tid=137
Thanks to /. :D

[IronBits]

More on leaking capacitors, that ALOT of mobo manufacturers used... :scared:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html