So, you guys might have noticed my lack of activity these days. Well, my pc had some issues. It eventually melted the motherboard and forced me to buy a new one. So, here it is! ^^ 4 GB RAM, Pentium 4 Xtreme @3.2 GHz and a bad-ass 1 GB Graphics card. Awesomeness.

...Melted!?
Ive had a processor blow before, and had capacitors pop, but ive yet to see a motherboard actually melt.

Ouch.

Congrats on your new comp, make sure you keep it dusted out.

Haha, thanks!

And yeah, you should've seen the look on my face...

I bet, got any pictures of the damage?

Yikes. Was it still under warranty? Have you been overclocking it or something?

@ Bibmeister: Nope. My cooling system died, and my PC appearently really needed that. Good thing my hard drive didn't die this time

@ Nite: I have, actually. Once my phone starts acting normal, will post the images.

That would do it, Normally comps are set up to immediately cut the power on CPU fan failure to prevent damage,

though the setting is easily overridden, the factory may have overridden it if the fans didn't have a data line to feed back RPM data, normally a yellow or brown wire on the fan. or if the fans were not compatible with the RPM data retrieval system.

not to say that it actually didn't have this setup to begin with, that much is entirely possible as well.



acting funky on ya?

Yeah, not responding or doing completely random other stuff, lol. I'll empty my SD card in a minute

now that doesnt sound good at all,
has it suffered an impact at all?

Wow, melted motherboard. Seems like you'd notice before it got that bad. Also, what kind of GPU do you got now?