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

[the_leander]

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

That had  occured to me, but I went over the case for over an hour and I couldn't see anything physically wrong with it.. It could be an electrical fault but quite frankly I'm stumped on this one. Guess I'll find out when Maplin's head office gets in touch with me...

[alphonsus]

Yup; I've had the resistors near the video out on an A1200 m/b in flames in front of me.
(Rewiring an Amiga -> SCART lead and got the 12V line shorting across the RGB lines)
Was most surprised and it was a reliable board until then. It still works, but I have to use RF with that one now.

I'm glad to hear someone else has had a good experience with a K7S5A - mine's great, although running @ 100MHz at the moment - not sure whether it's the RAM or the (not good) heatsink on the northbridge that's at fault.
I'll try again when I get some DDR RAM for it.

Oh, yes. I've also burnt myself on an IDE cable!
Was rearranging the IDE devices on a 4way adaptor for a different A1200, turned it back on and everything got hot. Definately damaged Gayle (or whichever runs IDE) on that one - it won't boot from IDE or if there's an accelerator attached.

[amigamad]

What a pain having to wait most places i have taken stuff back to have just given a replacement. :-)

[mikey2001]

Ive kind of damaged a Microvitec multiscan monitor on my A1200 by accidentally selected the A2024 resolution form Workbench. The screen went black and blue for a few seconds, and the monitor made noises like popping popcorn before I reset the A1200. The monitor still works, but now has a yellowish tint, which can be resolved by a bang to the side of the monitor (not very technical I know! :-o ). The problem becomes less as the monitor warms up.

[Hammer]

Glaucus wrote:

Bought a dandy little ECS K7SOM motherboard, onboard graphics, sound and lan, came with a cpu on board and was what I was after, a nice cheerfull little board that has a cpu included in the bundle.

heh, I was planning on getting this motherboard for a friend of mine. I typically stick with ASUS boards, but they don't make a board quite like this one, and for that price. Anyway, keep us posted on the outcome!

  - Mike

One could try ASrock brand i.e. it’s a subsidiary of ASUS for the value end market…

[the_leander]

I'm glad to hear someone else has had a good experience with a K7S5A - mine's great, although running @ 100MHz at the moment - not sure whether it's the RAM or the (not good) heatsink on the northbridge that's at fault.

move the sd stick to the port closest to the edge of the motherboard, I found it stopped kicking off after that... and it only happens when it played games under windows?!

[the_leander]

What a pain having to wait most places i have taken stuff back to have just given a replacement

I figure they're just covering their own backsides in this, it stops people burning out maybe as much as a dozen boards before giving up... either way so long as I get either my cash back or a system that is actually proven to operate I don't much care either way. That said, if they send me back the board thats burned out for whatever reason I'll be very miffy'ed

[AmiGR]

The same thing happened to my 1084s...
The display got shrinked to a line, poof, BANG, poof,
*BANG*.
ALL the caps in the power supply were blown...
And when I replaced them, the LMs said *HELLO!*,
by blowing up... :-)

Once, I wired a large capacitor and blew it up off the
balcony to annoy a stupid neighbour... :-)

I've also seen PCBs catch fire and *FELT* a PSU make a nice discharge on my finger... It was painful
but fun, watching a spark between my finger and
2 contacts... (No, I didn't TOUCH).

[amigamad]

Ive have burnt ide cables to the stage they melted and burnt most the plastic off of them.Done two ide interfaces in  the cables must have been damaged and shorted together. My a1200 tower still works perfect as well although i did have to resolder the one ide interface as copper link bourned as well but even that is still working ok. :-)