Anyone ELSE making magic BLUE SMOKE today??

[charlie]

Strangest darn thing... just a little 3.7v action and the OCZ DDR Booster decides to fry :( on a P4C800... fortunately it didn't take anything with it...

Ever seen THIS before:
I think that's called an "afterthought fusible link".....


http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33601

[[XC] moddolicous]

Thats pretty weird. Have u ever tried above 3.7 before?

[charlie]

Thats pretty weird. Have u ever tried above 3.7 before?

yeah, last night I was running 4.0v... Today it did it RIGHT on power-up. Even heard the "crack"....

wonder if it's RMA-able?

[Vapor]

Wow....that's just.....wow.

Try the RMA, they'd probably take it.

[bachus_anonym]

yeah, last night I was running 4.0v... Today it did it RIGHT on power-up. Even heard the "crack"....

wonder if it's RMA-able?

Looks like RMA time to me :( OCZ should take it, IMO... Did you cool it with a fan?

Something like that happened to my DFI NF2 Infinity, a while ago. I accidentally tripped one of the wires from OVP mod. I fixed it but once I turned it ON it smoked big time!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33602&stc=1

[craig588]

Is that just the photo or did it burn a perfect line right through the board?

[bachus_anonym]

Is that just the photo or did it burn a perfect line right through the board?
If it's directed at me, then yes... About an inch of copper trace came off the PCB... Nice and clean :lol:

[charlie]

Looks like RMA time to me :( OCZ should take it, IMO... Did you cool it with a fan?

Something like that happened to my DFI NF2 Infinity, a while ago. I accidentally tripped one of the wires from OVP mod. I fixed it but once I turned it ON it smoked big time!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33602&stc=1

OUCH! That's VICIOUS!!

[bachus_anonym]

BTW Charlie? Does that Nikon of yours take such close macro shots or you blew that cropped area up a bit? Because, that's hell of a close up!!! Not sharp but still very close to the subject!

[Supertim0r]

The OCZ booster is a realy great overclocker tool. only problem is the incredibely cheap 1 turn pot that make the voltage innacruate :fact:
Maybe you should try modding your next booster ;)

[dippyskoodlez]

wow... those look painful...

I had a trace from the agp slot to a cap melt off like charlies on my DFI infinity. VGA port no longer functioned on any video card, A fan shorted and then my sound no longer worked, i couldnt get a PCI sound card working, and this sucker still booted 250fsb.

ended up flashing the bios chip with an abit AN7 bios and saved my perfectly good AN7 from a bad flash. :D

[The Mofo]

Charlie, was that the mobo you use for the Dothan board that just popped?

[pancake]

was only the booster that popped.. mobo ok

[charlie]

BTW Charlie? Does that Nikon of yours take such close macro shots or you blew that cropped area up a bit? Because, that's hell of a close up!!! Not sharp but still very close to the subject!

Nikon powah!!

Here's the KEY to macro-photography... use ambient light and turn OFF flash. I take it out on the patio... the blurriness comes from the excessive Vdroop on my hands, lol... with a tripod, they'd be PERFECT!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33605

C

[EMC2]

Now C, you should know better... only IC's have Magic Blue Smoke... PWB traces just have your ordinary, everyday Mystical Grey Smoke :p:

You can take a piece of copper solder wick or 16AWG wire and solder it across the Afterthought fusable link to get back up and running ;)

Peace :toast:

[charlie]

Now C, you should know better... only IC's have Magic Blue Smoke... PWB traces just have your ordinary, everyday Mystical Grey Smoke :p:

You can take a piece of copper solder wick or 16AWG wire and solder it across the Afterthought fusable link to get back up and running ;)

Peace :toast:

lmao.... yeah you're right!! Not knowing why the Booster fried, I'm hesitant to do the old "stick the old fuse back into the fusebox with aluminum foil wrapped around it" trick...

[fareastgq]

yeah, a burnt trace is nothing. :) Fix my audio amp that way.

[freecableguy]

My booster came with that same fusible link option.... :mad:

[charlie]

My booster came with that same fusible link option.... :mad:

ever hear from OCZ what the cause is???

C

[eBoy0]

Wow, i hope that doesn't happen to my booster. I'm running it at 3.7v 24/7... hmmm did it like spark or anything or just smoke?? Cuz i hear they can start fires. Also, did you have passive cooling on the heatsink? Cuz even at 3.7 it's too hot to touch w/o cooling i can only imagine 4.0*aren't they only made to go up to 3.9 anyways?*

[mongoled]

Looks like RMA time to me :( OCZ should take it, IMO... Did you cool it with a fan?

Something like that happened to my DFI NF2 Infinity, a while ago. I accidentally tripped one of the wires from OVP mod. I fixed it but once I turned it ON it smoked big time!

Did exactly the same thing, never got round to fixing mine though, lol

[Highland3r]

What rev was your booster Charlie?

[charlie]

What rev was your booster Charlie?

R.2
I got it like the first week they came out :D

C

[Highland3r]

R.2
I got it like the first week they came out :D

C

Cool cheers :) Might set Persivore on this one (now its working again) see if theres anything that can be done to reduce the chances of this happening.

[Ubermann]

Yesterday i was trying to cure my semidead X850 card.
Tried all possible and last try PSU gave some nice singing noise.
So i looked at the gfx and saw a diod with orange light and thought "wierd didnt know gfx had light diods on them"
Looking closer i saw it was a resistor that was glowing very bright and smell hit my noise.
It now belongs in voltmod heaven, with my money =(

[[XC] leviathan18]

http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/5062/cimg0052large4sm.th.jpg (http://img284.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0052large4sm.jpg)

that was a lot of smoke inside my car :(

[Dani]

Oh Charlie, that's pretty "normal" for Booster :(

[sysfailur]

I think I can top you guys :P Now, although not all are damaged that you can see the frying (although some are) here's my nice lil stack of deads :P

http://www.maximumoc.com/img/hardware/2400+/stackoamds.jpg

[Gamer]

how did you broke such nice CPU's Sysfailur ?
it's a disgrace !!! :(

[[XC] leviathan18]

sysfailur burning that quantity of cpus dont make your better OC :P j/k

[charlie]

I've been pretty lucky... I've been doing this stuff about 3 years, and my DEAD list is "only":

Athlon xp2200 T'bred
Asus A7N8X
2 x Abit IC7
2 x P4C800
Xabre200 Vid Card
X800XL AGP Vid Card
BBATI 9700 Pro
Corsair BH6
MUSHKIN PC4400
Kingston KHX3000
TTGI 520W PSU

edit: add ASUS SK8N and ASUS A8V mobo's

So that's not bad after all the DICE, LN2, voltmods and big clocks!!

C

[don_vercetti]

wow compared to all that, mine's pathetic, an a7v8x and a 9600 pro.

Ubermann, the way you phrase that is very funny.

[craig588]

Yesterday i was trying to cure my semidead X850 card.
Tried all possible and last try PSU gave some nice singing noise.
So i looked at the gfx and saw a diod with orange light and thought "wierd didnt know gfx had light diods on them"
Looking closer i saw it was a resistor that was glowing very bright and smell hit my noise.
It now belongs in voltmod heaven, with my money =(


I had a beautiful 4 channel 1200 watts per channel amp die like that. It had a delayed startup circut so the light would actually jump between various resistors and diodes as it tried powering up different parts of the board. The light was so bright I needed to put on my welding glasses just to look in its direction because my eyes really hurt and teared if I looked at it for even a fraction of a second.

[Peen]

Oh the dead list!!!

Abit IS7
P4 2.4C
Geforce 4 ti4200
2x 9800 Pro
6800 GT
Asus A7V333
XP1700 Tbred B
XP2000 Pal
Athlon 1.13ghz
Corsair 256mb

Probly some others that I cant think of

oh and of course the stuff I torture the hardest, and is cheapest never dies

[skate2snow]

Nah, Sysfailure burnt that much just because he cant use a PC correctly..... :p:

[STEvil]

FUGGER's booster did that too IIRC, Charlie.


dead list...

Celeron 266 x2
Celeron 366 x3
VIA C3 466(?)
Duron 600
P3 650
Celeron 733/766 (forgot which it was)
Duron 800
T-Bird 850
T-Bird 1200
Palomino 1700+
T-bred A 1700+

GF1 DDR
GF2 GTS
GF4 Ti4400
BBA 9700

Abit BE6-II x2
Epox 8kta3+
Epox 8rda+
Abit nF7
DFI Infinity

Rockford Fosgate Punch 800x2 amp..

Enermax 350w PSU and some other stuff i've forgotten about.. makes for a good spare parts pile anyways ;)

EDIT

Replace (all) the mosfets leviathan, the amps probably still fine other than the smoke damage ;)

[kiwi]

Speakin of deadlists, I wonder who has the longest one :slapass:

I have only Athlon xp-m, abit NF7 and a stick of BH5.

[[XC] leviathan18]

my amp is 200 per channel and it has 4 you brige it and have 400rms and 2 channels it almost burnt my car lol

[blackjok3r]

Man, this is a lot of dead stuff, I only have a dead XP-M 2600+ good OC'r too. :( Oh and the board it was in was pretty screwed after but it still runs a duron fine, won't change the multi anymore but.

[harleybro]

Well it's a day late but here's what happened to mine today. Sorry pic is blurry since my cam is not real good.
http://img205.echo.cx/img205/6134/picture3085ic.th.jpg (http://img205.echo.cx/my.php?image=picture3085ic.jpg)
Was havin probs. w/ my mobo. Went to a back up. Hit the power button and watched a huge cloud of smoke along w/ sparks shoot from under the sink on my DFI NF4 mobo. Pulled the sink off and found the top of the mosfet melted. :( As for the dead list well I have only been doing this since December or so of last year but here goes:
2 X850XT's
1 X600XT
1 MSI Neo2 Plat.
I DFI NF4 Ultra
1 AMD 3500+
1 AMD 4000+ Claw (Was a great oc'er also) :(
1 Black Ice Extreme II Radiator (Drilled a hole in it while modding)

[TMM]

http://www.maximumoc.com/img/hardware/2400+/stackoamds.jpg
lmfao, You win the prize!
:D

[don_vercetti]

god those are some expensive dead lists, more than anything. TWO X850 XT's!!
That's already £600 or so.

[k|ngp|n]

Strangest darn thing... just a little 3.7v action and the OCZ DDR Booster decides to fry :( on a P4C800... fortunately it didn't take anything with it...

Ever seen THIS before:
I think that's called an "afterthought fusible link".....


http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33601


Damn charlie.... :caution:

[QuikSilver]

I'm pretty lucky, I have been doing this for 3 years and only killed one thing so far; my piece of sh-it Asus 6600GT. Good for me because now I have an excuse to upgrade to a better card :D

[LorD_Kvadd]

man that pile of dead athlons does break your heart.

I don't know how long I've been oc'ing but a few things died along the way.

Duron 800 - mounted the damned heatsink on the wrong way, tt supermini orb. Killed my first AMD board also.
Nf7-S rev2 - did 260fsb plus, teard off the VTT IC, revived it but it didn't oc as far as before. Later it died again due to a litte mistake.
AXP 1600+ - Assumed dead, but I'm not sure. Shame if it's dead, did 1,95ghz on AC, bench stable. Palomino core, burned marks into my heatsink @ 2ghz. I could actually see the stepping on the heatsink :D
AOpen MK77M-V - my first OC mobo. Semi dead, boot then dies during post.

Sorry to hear about that booster charlie, hope that you get a new one :toast:

[sysfailur]

lol and that's just the CPUs... my motherboard stack is hunormous :P

And why such a large stack? I have a problem with voltage hehe

[Dani]

Charlie, try to fix it with wire:confused:

[masterofpuppets]

My dead list:
CPUs:
1.4GHz Athlon T'bird
233MHz Pentium II
A huge load of Pentium 1's
Pentium 4 3.2EE

Mobos:
Countless P4C800-E's
Abit IC7-Max 3 (although it is now revived)
Old Pentium II mobo

Graphics cards:
Countless X800 Pro ViVos (last one died of power problem, previous one of BIOS)

Other:
Fortran 350w PSU
Several Maxtor HDDs
Creative Audigy 2 ZS

Ok, my dead list isn't too big then.

[don_vercetti]

how did you kill the audigy? leak or something?

[ZX7891]

Yeah thats what i was kind of wondering too.

[AcEmAsTr]

My 120gig maxtor caught fire, was pitch black in room but the white flame was immense, smelt rather nasty too.

no pics, but my 9800pro went with it, not sure of cause yet. :(

[Trice]

I had to epoxy my heatsink on because the tape would unstick when it got warmed up. I had fans over it also.

[masterofpuppets]

don_vercetti, I removed it from a PCI slot one day, it never worked again. I don't even know what killed it. There is no physical damage to it, that is visible anyway. All I know is that it doesn't work anymore :( So now I stick to my favorite card, SoundBlaster Live 5.1 ;) I've dropped this thing onto a nylon carpet (which shocked it), had condensation dripping on it from my Mach II evaporator (I mean, a huge big puddle bridging pretty much the whole card), and given it all sorts of various torture. But it still works fine :)

[dippyskoodlez]

don_vercetti, I removed it from a PCI slot one day, it never worked again. I don't even know what killed it. There is no physical damage to it, that is visible anyway. All I know is that it doesn't work anymore :( So now I stick to my favorite card, SoundBlaster Live 5.1 ;) I've dropped this thing onto a nylon carpet (which shocked it), had condensation dripping on it from my Mach II evaporator (I mean, a huge big puddle bridging pretty much the whole card), and given it all sorts of various torture. But it still works fine :)


haha.. speaking of ESD, I remember having my AN7 out of the box, hooking it up on my mobo tray, and tapping the side of the pcb. when I was about an inch away, ZAP! a nice long static bolt.


board didnt feel a thing :D

[Jack]

Charlie have you tried soldering the two end together again?

i believe i've seen this before and some guy from OCZ suggested a bit of solder between the two ends and when you connected them again, the booster would propably still work.

[orig3n]

ever hear from OCZ what the cause is???

C

I would say it either shorted on something (unlikely) or they have not designed that track properly to cope with the current requirements, this would cause it to heat up and burn out under high load. Seen it happen to a few boosters :(

[harleybro]

Well another addition to my long list is my FX just burnt up last night. :(

[skycrane]

i have only been doing this for less then 3yrs, so my list is a bit short....

P$ 2.8b working late one nitght, broke a pin :(

old ECS mobo

Gforce 4 ti4200? i think

A7N266VM

hopefuly that will be all of them :banana:

[InSanCen]

Dead list... erm nothing I think...

A few things have been stored for years, then refused to work later (Think VLB IDE/Floppy/COM Cards, Original SoundBlasters etc...).

Never killed anything in action. Thought I'd killed an NF7, but was tired from Seeing what OC I could run, and forgot to change the jumper back from the CLR_CMOS position... :slap:

[sabrewolf732]

hmmm

kx18d pro
mobile 2500
msi 5900xt
radeon 9800
2x hard drives