Fried Motherboard

Xenophon said:
Nope, it's dead. RIP
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Where abouts are you located ? what part of SA ?


Sounds to me, thats its not the mobo - if there is no beep you might have blown one of the connectors on the PSU or the connectors in the front of the pc case. Chances that the change in the power out-put for different regions would blow the mobo are very slim as the mobo is made to work with both depending on the region you live in.
 
Xenophon said:
But I bought a new power supply and still nada.

Furthermore anybody got name/number of a computer insurance company?

My one friend gave me some advise but he's a bit of a skelm and I am working on the morality of it. He said I must take the Graphics card back to where I bought it (only 2 weeks ago) and tell them it was working fine and then just stopped....:eek:
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The will still charge you labour and depending on what is not working, they'll charge you to replace it - regardless if the gfx card caused it. so dont even try...
 
*Whoopee*

/me hijack the bar
/me whip out the sjampagne
/me whip out the strawberries
/me whip out the whiskey
/me whip out the batteries:p

My computer's fine.:D Who wants to party?

Who wants to know of how blonde I am :o ..... I just plugged the one power cable in wrong.....

/me slaps meself
/me feel like complete @ss
/me make deal with meself not to work on computer after having a drink:eek:

Ps anybody can get me hints with loading all my programs. I format the pc and load everything from scratch, but still it runs absolutely crap, not at all what I expected
 
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Xenophon said:
Ps anybody can get me hints with loading all my programs. I format the pc and load everything from scratch, but still it runs absolutely crap, not at all what I expected
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hmmm, chances are that you loaded the important stuff first and that's now at the bottom of the disk. Mount the disk upside down to get to that important stuff quicker.
 
/me congrats Xeno on er first succesful self caused heart attack followed by er first succesful self caused reason to PARTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !
May there be many more !!!
 
Luke7777 said:
hmmm, chances are that you loaded the important stuff first and that's now at the bottom of the disk. Mount the disk upside down to get to that important stuff quicker.
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Ahea. I must remember this one :D
 
The will still charge you labour and depending on what is not working, they'll charge you to replace it - regardless if the gfx card caused it. so dont even try...
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am doing small business from home in IT

insofar as charging labour, for example repairs, I only charge for successful work, and for changing cards... well, that's simple. Charge my retail price for the card and fit for customer as a value-added free service so he has either the option to do it him/herself and not feel like he has to do it himself because he is going to get ripped off. Good advice and answering customers questions should never be charged for...

If gfx card is faulty, prove it first, advise customer and tell him/her what the options are. Don't always be out to charge your customers. Sometimes, the courtesies you extend today may mean your success tomorrow.
 
nGAGEd55 said:
It would mean that instead of the PSU expecting 230 volts, it would think the input voltage must be 110 volts, like they use in the US. But here we use 230v so like Obelix said, that would mean if its set to 110v it would double the output voltages cos its getting double what its supposed to.
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Setting the switch to 110volts is not going to double the output voltage!it merely sets the input AC voltage to the transformer .:cool: This should not blow the MB.
 
Eish, Don't know where I got 300W from, read the graphics card box last night.... Should have bought a 450W

Edit : Kei, can't PM you - Pls PM me a price for a 450W PSU and a cheap optical mouse (the mouse is for my parents and they won't know the diffs)
 
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