Topic: 6990 caught on fire... (Read 3069 times)
Ouch... That sucks.....
pictures!!
I think you should try a third time at least!
I totally agree. If your computer bursts into flames, a reboot should solve it.
2 inch of flame, computer goes dead. Try it again, Same....
I think you should try a third time at least!
I totally agree. If your computer bursts into flames, a reboot should solve it.
+1000. Just reset it. The charred bits will buff out.
I just had a 5870 fan fail and it got hot enough to melt a capacitor and some stuff off, and was still mining.
Didn't survive rebooting
Didn't survive rebooting
haha
i had a 5970 fan 'malfunction' and the card was mining at like 50mhash (1st gpu), 100mhash (2nd gpu). it hadn't completely failed, it was still spinning at 800rpm, which i guess might have saved me from total meltdown. the GPU temps were 105oC, 100oC...
i don't even go into that room some days, good thing I was checking the miner stats I guess. noticed some funky 'invalid' shares appearing from that GPU haha
0.2 BTC if you post a picture of the charred hull 
I just had a 5870 fan fail and it got hot enough to melt a capacitor and some stuff off, and was still mining.
Didn't survive rebooting
Didn't survive rebooting
pictures!!
I think you should try a third time at least!
I totally agree. If your computer bursts into flames, a reboot should solve it.
2 inch of flame, computer goes dead. Try it again, Same....
I think you should try a third time at least!
I totally agree. If your computer bursts into flames, a reboot should solve it.
I did try it 3 times.. only flames the first two :/
Just like he said, the reboot solved the flame problem
oh, and, yeah, it didn't work when i tried it a few hours later.
i havent had an incident like that since around 2004 or 2005
ahh the acrid black smoke billowing out of the psu
ahh the acrid black smoke billowing out of the psu
DAMN NO PICTURES>.....that would be awesome!
pictures!!
I think you should try a third time at least!
I totally agree. If your computer bursts into flames, a reboot should solve it.
2 inch of flame, computer goes dead. Try it again, Same....
I think you should try a third time at least!
I totally agree. If your computer bursts into flames, a reboot should solve it.
2 inch of flame, computer goes dead. Try it again, Same....
I think you should try a third time at least!
BTW, this is an example of where the "let out the magic smoke" joke came from in regards to dead computers and their components. Way back in the 80s and 90s the electrical components were more massive used more material so you could actually get some smoke spewing off shorted equipment.
Flames mean a sealed component bursting, if you are dead set on playing with it I'd be doing it on a system I could afford to lose.
Sounds like an electrical short of some sort. Extender might be possible if it shorted multiple PCI-E lanes. You should be able to visually spot that kind of issue if you inspect the extender carefully. Otherwise I'd suspect moisture damage unless you were overvolting or it was regularly run very hot.
Show us a picture of the burnt PCB, and we may be able to tell you what caused the fire base on the source of ignition.
Sorry to hear that...................but no pics?
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JK,hope no other damage was done
Bad extender or just the vid card
?JK,hope no other damage was done
Bad extender or just the vid card
Okay so I had a 6990 that was not showing up, it happens.
I go and change the extender cuz extenders go bad often. Turn it back on, sparks and flames!
2 inch of flame, computer goes dead. Try it again, Same....
Thank goodness for warranties.
I go and change the extender cuz extenders go bad often. Turn it back on, sparks and flames!
2 inch of flame, computer goes dead. Try it again, Same....
Thank goodness for warranties.
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