Ever seen a motherboard litterally burn out? I just did....

[Tomas]

I have not had this happen with a motherboard... But i have had other cases: Monitor that suddently started coming thick  PINK smoke from, a printer that exploded with flame shooting straight up, pc speakers that exploded with thick gray smoke coming out of one of them.. The printer was worst, smelled AWFUL

edit:
oh yeah... forgot my seagate disk.. suddently went up in smoke  :-(
Also got myself a nice hercules kyro board a few years back.... worked great for the first 10 hours i got it until i was going to use the tvout.. as i changed to dual view it worked for 10 seconds before the screen went black and board started smelling weird... never got it replaced, even though the board was new... :-(

[Tomas]

I got the replacement home about an hour ago, plugged in all the cables etc and the second unit went up, same place as before. Am now going to take the lot back and get a refund, I'll not be getting another one of these boards again. Its a real shame as I do like ECS, but I wont be buying another one of their all in one boards again.

That is extremly weird... you sure they was not a shortcut somewhere? maybe some metal/screw sticking out from the case? or something psu that is fuc*ed? It is extremly weird that 2 motherboards would do the exact same thing