purplecatty
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Just today, My son came upstair and informed me that the desktop system just stopped working and want me to check it. I went down and smelled electronic "smoke" coming out from my 7 years old Giga-Byte GA7VAX system. The processor seem hot to the touch and it's fan isn't spinning. It was supposed to shut down automatically once temp reach 65 C. He said he was watching Youtube.com and it frozed and he rebooted twice. It stopped working afterward.
I unplugged the system and took a look at it. Oh man!! It's the main problem was the power supply jack to mobo nearly caught on fire!! That was the flash point (the jack was plugged in properly and firmly and never had problem). It seem the jack plugged to board's jack melted on two red wire part of power supply jack. Rest of them are okay. So I considered the board "DEAD" for good! It already had it's 2nd life tho (Had it's capacitor replaced years ago). I believe it's processor (AMD XP 1900) is shot too cuz it was stuck on with dead running board without fan running. (The LED status light on board shown it's still on while power is on.).
So I decided to move parts to ABIT AV8 that I previously mentioned it had BIOS problem but still works with BIOS reset (it won't reconize drives until I reset the BIOS to be able to reconize drives). I tested the AV8 and it powers on for 10 seconds and shut down itself Ugghh!! no! no!. I tried to reset BIOS and power on again. The monitor still doesn't show bootup screen but the BIOS LED display onboard show it's Hexdecimal code but shuts down after "9F". The owner manual doesn't say about it either.. I've swapped and test all 3 graphic cards, Swapped DDR1 512mb memory sticks but still won't show up. 450watt power supply works perfectly well. I realized that I have another system went shot. It's only 1 1/2 years old tho. I think BIOS in the board finally shot (I remember the monitor showed funny garble screen when I checked month ago, I shut it down and left it alone till now)...
I am planning to replace 939 mobo with another 939 mobo, I am not sure if the AMD64 939 3500 "Venice Core" processro working or not. I don't have another 939 board to test the processor. If it does work then I would proceed to buy another 939 board What do you suggest???
Catty
I unplugged the system and took a look at it. Oh man!! It's the main problem was the power supply jack to mobo nearly caught on fire!! That was the flash point (the jack was plugged in properly and firmly and never had problem). It seem the jack plugged to board's jack melted on two red wire part of power supply jack. Rest of them are okay. So I considered the board "DEAD" for good! It already had it's 2nd life tho (Had it's capacitor replaced years ago). I believe it's processor (AMD XP 1900) is shot too cuz it was stuck on with dead running board without fan running. (The LED status light on board shown it's still on while power is on.).
So I decided to move parts to ABIT AV8 that I previously mentioned it had BIOS problem but still works with BIOS reset (it won't reconize drives until I reset the BIOS to be able to reconize drives). I tested the AV8 and it powers on for 10 seconds and shut down itself Ugghh!! no! no!. I tried to reset BIOS and power on again. The monitor still doesn't show bootup screen but the BIOS LED display onboard show it's Hexdecimal code but shuts down after "9F". The owner manual doesn't say about it either.. I've swapped and test all 3 graphic cards, Swapped DDR1 512mb memory sticks but still won't show up. 450watt power supply works perfectly well. I realized that I have another system went shot. It's only 1 1/2 years old tho. I think BIOS in the board finally shot (I remember the monitor showed funny garble screen when I checked month ago, I shut it down and left it alone till now)...
I am planning to replace 939 mobo with another 939 mobo, I am not sure if the AMD64 939 3500 "Venice Core" processro working or not. I don't have another 939 board to test the processor. If it does work then I would proceed to buy another 939 board What do you suggest???
Catty