Fire & Smoke on the Foxconn...Ouch!

[Ace-a-Rue]

i was sitting there at the bench table admiring my assembled hardware with this new foxconn...shaving my head (electric) in preparation for going to church...i had my glasses removed as the foxconn was rebooting.

suddenly, out of the corner of my eye i see flames and then smoke shooting up from the board right behind the 1st 16X slot...i said, "YIKES"...i leaped up and yelled, "FIre, Fire" down the hallway to my wife!...she ran down the hallway with the extinguisher and blasted that baby into kingdom-come! ....kidding about the fire extinguisher...but i did yell yikes and fire

i leaped up out of my chair and fought through the fire and smoke fumes to lunge at the PSU to get to the kill switch!!...i barely had enough breath left to switch off the PSU..shew!

i said to myself...self!...why ME! ...i had NO mods on this board and i was not over volting...i finally knew WHAT i did...I UNDER VOLTED the darn MCH and Vcore temination voltage...i was just experimenting with the settings...that's it guys!...damn!...what a wake up call at 6:45 AM!

here is the picture of the after affect...green arrow points at the mosfet that decided to give up the ship!

[lawrywild]

rofl.. unlucky though

Seriously, undervolting should NOT do that

[lross78550]

Lets face it guys that foxconn board is the yugo of motherboards. Mine fried at 1.54v vcore and yours fries cause you undervolt a little??? I think catching on fire is the only thing the foxconn board does really well.
Lee

[Blue078]

I love the smell of burnt silicon in the morning

Sorry Ace couldn't resist

[Stigma]

rofl.. unlucky though

Seriously, undervolting should NOT do that

Yea, I never heard of anything being killed by under-volting. That mosfet was most likely bad and would have died anyway, so I think you can atleast have a clear concience that you didn't murder your board =)

-Stigma

[DaWaN]

I thought the Digital PWM burned, but it's a MOSFET, the mosfet was already bad I think. Time for RMA

[lross78550]

New Slogan:

FIRECONN MOTHERBOARD FOR A SMOKING HOT SYSTEM.

and why rma it? Unless you can get a refund... Im gona frame my fireconn mohterboard, hang it on the wall so in the future when i think about buying mohterboards ill remember anything but fireconn.
Lee

[perry_78]

Firecon, the choice of a professional .... firefighter.

[NickS]

LMAO. Wow man, you're lucky you were in the room when it happened!

Reminds me of the time I set a Biostar on fire installing XP with my friends Opty 148 in it LOL.

[Falkentyne]

And people were saying I still should have given this board a chance??? JESUS CHRIST....what do I have to do, have my entire HOME burn down ????????

Foxconn sucks so goddamn bad it isn't even funny anymore....SO GLAD I canceled that order...

[NickS]

This may be an isolated case though. You never hear about any of their other motherboards failing like this...

[kiwi]

Sorry to hear that. Most likely you won't be able to RMA it since it has burn marks.

What PSU do you have, do you have UPS or surge protection?

[don_vercetti]

This may be an isolated case though. You never hear about any of their other motherboards failing like this...

well there's that other Foxconn mobo that lit up at 1.54v vcore. Two boards in a week, certainly seems like overclockers should be avoiding them.

[NickS]

Damn.. really? It's a shame too, we all thought this board had potential. Now it has potential, to be labeled as a fire hazard.

[dandragonrage]

Undervolting means more voltage is across the transistor instead of the component it supplies. It can do that.

[Falkentyne]

Search the forums and find any other board that died from a mild undervolt...I sure can't find anything...

[syne_24]

holy cow what a morning you have there lol..

[lross78550]

maybe dell is using foxconn mohterboards

[nooh]

maybe dell is using foxconn mohterboards

Terrorists.Damn Them

[lross78550]

That wasnt terrorist! thats dells new laptop end of life cycle system. every 3 years your laptop explodes forcing you to purchase a new one
seriously thats a photo of a dell laptop that caught fire due to the battery problem they are currently having
Lee

Terrorists.Damn Them

[powertrippin]

well... lets not forget that voltage and amperage are inversely proportional. As you lower the voltage, the current (amperage) must increase to do the same work. Current, or amperage, is the force that the electrons move with... the more current you have, the more heat that will be generated. Just simple electronic principals.

[m0da]

Well, im sure it looked semi-pretty. The board is red, the flames red/orange/yellow.
what a sunrise

[Yoad]

^Infact, when burning chemicals and stuff it even do green flames and blue..

-Jo.

[party animal]

That makes it look more like fireworks than a sunrise. Sorry to hear that your board decided to crap out on you.

[[LCN]Knowledge]

OMG, that reminds me of a PSU that burnt my enterire system (only cpu and memory survived). I woke up on that morning and when i pressed the Power button i just saw some kind of explosion at the back of my PSU. Too bad all my hardware died (even the kewboard, mouse, and cd-rom, can u believe that?). Lucky me i already had another videocard, my bro's motherboard, another cd-rom etc.

Now im very careful on chosing a PSU .