Quote Originally Posted by tripgood View Post
The same exact thing happened to me. I did not hear a popping sound but the post code indicator went blank and I smelled smoke! The fans were still spinning. This happened within 30 minutes of powering up. I checked over every bit of the pcb and could not find any scorch marks but definitely indicates a fatal pwm problem. New board will be here Thursday.
sorry to hear

no idea why that would happen hopefully rma replacement will be better for ya

Quote Originally Posted by rusty View Post
trying to set it up now and getting 7F :<
post led codes http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showthread.php?t=8603 most likely bios checksum i.e. if default vdimm is too low for your ram... DFI board default vdimm = 1.56v

what ram you using ?