Damaged I/O chip?

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Reptlle

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Hi guys. So I upgraded my pc a bit. Got the R9 390. Also had to get a new case since mine was too small for the new card. So moved everything over and everything went great. Then I found out the R9 isn't compatible with my mobo (dp67bg) but that there are ways to get it to work.

Decided to wait till today so I can use my work laptop and team viewer to get the drivers on there (which apparently work). So anyway, I was messing around with an extra fan I bought, wanted to check out the LED on it. The moron that I am, I plugged the little LED power cable into the wrong port and ended up frying my super I/O chip. Now I didn't know what it was till I cooked it. Wasn't crazy damage. It popped and smoked a bit but not like there was serious burn marks. Now my question is this, will I still be able to use my motherboard with a fried I/O chip? I know it's used for legacy devices which I don't really have. Apparently it's also used for fan control and such (which I can set to manual for now). Just don't want it to damage my other components. I seriously don't have the cash now to buy a new mobo+cpu at present :(
 
Update the bios of my motherboard will help with the graphics card.
 
Unfortunately intel decided to stop support for it so the latest bios was released in 2012 or something. So it doesn't work. But that's not really my main concern right now. Need to know if I'll still be able to use my motherboard
 
Nope, mayhe not an intel motherboard. But that's anyway way beside the point and not helpful at all. Last thing I need now is an intel vs amd war
 
I literally just want to know if my motherboard is still usable or not
 
Does it boot? if it works it works .. if it doesn't your fooked
 
DTBA said:
Does it boot? if it works it works .. if it doesn't your fooked
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^^This

It's been a while but back when COM & LPT ports were commonly used they often died, there was no point in replacing the MB when a PCI add-on card would do the trick.
 
I decided to bite the bullet and get a new mobo and cpu. Didn't want to risk my other components, especially not my brand new R9 390 on a faulty motherboard. Thanks for the assistance though
 
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