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i hope your system is ok....and I have never seen real flames in a case...that would have scared the **** out of me.
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Best of luck with it. You may be rmaing many things to get that system working again. Most likely you didn't fry everything. Sounds like u might have lost 1 card and possibly a motherboard. You might be able to rma them both when you get around to it. Or you may just have t suck it up and buy another one. Don't feel bad though if you don't know you don't know. If you have never seen standoffs before there is no way you would have known to use them.
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My 4890 just sits there and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. I wish it did cool stuff like occasionally shoot out flames.
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Although in all honesty, better cooling makes it LESS likely to shoot out flames...
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Had a PSU shoot flames at me once after flicking the switch to on. Video card shooting fire wins though.
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Do a count of the holes in your mobo (most boards have 9), and set aside exactly that number of standoffs before you even start. Then, if you lay the mobo down and start installing, and you end up puttin a screw through a hole and it doesn't catch a standoff like you expected ... do NOT ignore it and just go 'oh, well, 8 screws is enough'. Because whilst it would be true that 8 screws is enough, the problem is that there's a standoff where it should not be, and who knows what's on the back of the board at the location where it's at. Trust me ... and the person I quoted ... we know from experience this is recipe for disaster 
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Alright. So i installed the standoffs, put the video card back in, powered on, got a quick spark, and failure to launch.
The mobo is still lighting up, and when i hit the power switch all the fans, and the liquid cooling start to run for a quick second, then the power is automatically cut off. So basically i hit the power, it flickers, then turns right back off. If the mobo is fried, which i'm trying to be optimistic about, it's going to be another 2 weeks before i can get another one, since i'm in Iraq right now. What else could i be missing that would cause a failure to launch?
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Really... anything. Most likely its the mobo being dead, or possibly even the PSU.
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