x470 taichi smoking and not booting
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Topic: x470 taichi smoking and not booting
Posted By: an_ocelot
Subject: x470 taichi smoking and not booting
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 8:45am
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" rel="nofollow - hello, today the x470 taichi i ordered came however only the blue lights turn on when i plug in the power supply. when i plug in the power button from my case it turns on only while i am holding down the power button, at which point the cpu fan turns on and the motherboard begins to crackle and smoke. what should i do to fix this problem?
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Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 10:46am
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" rel="nofollow - Its a very big chance the motherboard is already dead as any computer component usually does when crackle and smoke occurs. Can you identify where the smoke came from? ------------- 
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Posted By: an_ocelot
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 11:03am
| the corner area of the io and m.2 slot |
Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 11:14am
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either way your best bet is just remove the board and return it to the store i'm pretty sure you'll find burnt marks on a chip once you get the board out of the system. -------------
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Posted By: an_ocelot
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 11:19am
| ok thanks |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 1:19am
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and while your at it take a second look at the pc case stand off screw mounts (the brass nut things you use to screw the board down to) im betting a very high chance you have one in the wrong place and its shorted out the back of the circuit board in which case your next new board will do the same thing ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250]  [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |
Posted By: Erasmus_Tycho
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 2:08am
This is probably the most likely scenario actually. ------------- ASRock x370 Taichi V4.4| Ryzen 1800x | 16GB x 2 DDR4 3200 (14cas) | GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N | WD NVMe Black 512GB | 2 x 500GB Samsung EVO 960 | Corsair HX1000 | EK Custom Loop (360mm rad + 280mm rad) |
datonyb wrote:Posted By: an_ocelot
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2018 at 9:05am
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" rel="nofollow - thanks ive only put the stand off screws where there is a hole in the motherboard to put in a screw from above. is this the correct way to do this?
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Posted By: Erasmus_Tycho
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2018 at 10:34am
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If you haven't RMA'd that board, I'd suggest that be your next course of action. Nothing in your computer should be crackling, sparking, or smoking.
EDIT: IF these things have already happened, chances are your board and potentially other attached items are damaged from such an event. ------------- ASRock x370 Taichi V4.4| Ryzen 1800x | 16GB x 2 DDR4 3200 (14cas) | GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N | WD NVMe Black 512GB | 2 x 500GB Samsung EVO 960 | Corsair HX1000 | EK Custom Loop (360mm rad + 280mm rad) |