Did you use stand offs?

 

Yep

 

Uhm yeah you should RMA i think is a Mobo defect or Maybe the PSU deffect delivering more power,I remember reading somewhere he tested the conections whith his multimerter and the 24pin was delivering more power than usual and he Rma'd The Psu

 

Then shouldn't be your fault.

 

I didn't use standoffs on my first build, and fried the motherboard. Thankfully it was just a school computer

I wouldn't say it's your fault. I helped my wife with her build a few years ago, and the first motherboard we got only booted up once

So we just RMA'd it and decided to get a different motherboard instead.

I'm sure your other parts are just fine. Just send the board back to where you got it, and maybe you'll have better luck on the next one

 

Just an incredibly frustrating process to spend days picking parts. Hours putting the thing together just to have the thing smoke on you. Looks like I will RMA the motherboard and hope the other parts work on the next go around! Thanks for all the help though. Really eased the nerves that it was my fault. Now I just hope the rest of my components are in good shape.

 

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Just an incredibly frustrating process to spend days picking parts. Hours putting the thing together just to have the thing smoke on you. Looks like I will RMA the motherboard and hope the other parts work on the next go around! Thanks for all the help though. Really eased the nerves that it was my fault. Now I just hope the rest of my components are in good shape.

Thats OCN though...

 

Before I started working on a new rig I test everything in top of the Styrofoam that came with the board. Just hook up the memory, cpu and DVD drive. Leave it running memtest over night before I start building it the next day.

 

I'd say just because a person asks this question to start with.... They know they they FUPED lol...

 

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Before I started working on a new rig I test everything in top of the Styrofoam that came with the board. Just hook up the memory, cpu and DVD drive. Leave it running memtest over night before I start building it the next day.

Might have to give that a try next time. This was my first build so there is a pretty large learning curve.

 

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I'd say just because a person asks this question to start with.... They know they they FUPED lol...

Or it was just my first build so I was hoping it wasn't my fault. But there was about a good hour or two that I thought I did ha

 

Where you planing on adding a second video card?

 

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I'd say just because a person asks this question to start with.... They know they they FUPED lol...

It's pretty hard to make hardware smoke. The only time I ever did that was when I accidentally got the 12V and 5V rails backward on a power supply for an external hard drive enclosure. Oh well, nothing of value was lost there.
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Before I started working on a new rig I test everything in top of the Styrofoam that came with the board. Just hook up the memory, cpu and DVD drive. Leave it running memtest over night before I start building it the next day.

Something might have been bad in the PCIe power delivery. Whatever the problem was, just RMA it.

 

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It's pretty hard to make hardware smoke. The only time I ever did that was when I accidentally got the 12V and 5V rails backward on a power supply for an external hard drive enclosure. Oh well, nothing of value was lost there.
Something might have been bad in the PCIe power delivery. Whatever the problem was, just RMA it.

Thank you Art for verifying my point...

 

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Thank you Art for verifying my point...

Well, it's not like he was trying to make a makeshift power adapter out of a decade old power adapter that didn't label its grounds with black for some reason. Short of doing something hilariously terrible like I did, it's gonna be hard to make hardware smoke, unless it's DOA/

 

Does anyone have good experience with MSI in the category of returns? Obviously there is nothing I can do until Monday but still a bit nervous they won't replace it.

 

Nah dont think its your fault.
I had a GPU that made a 2cm electrical arc from one point of the gpu to a nther point on the gpu on the first boot up.
went trough RMA without any issues.

I think many people think MSI has a good service on returns.

 

Happend one's to me.But it was my fault.I accidently left a screw under the motherboard.It shorted to chassis and some smoke suddenlly appear

 

This is where it started smoking, for those that are interested.

http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/b...ser/bisnettda23/media/3eb28fe8-cb39-4682-bb8b-8641f8f7d8ae_zps1f86782e.jpg.html

 

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This is where it started smoking, for those that are interested.

http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/b...ser/bisnettda23/media/3eb28fe8-cb39-4682-bb8b-8641f8f7d8ae_zps1f86782e.jpg.html

well, you either have a faulty power supply or motherboard.

 

Well here are the exact pics of my motherboard. Looks like I'll RMA it.. hope it wasn't my fault. Can't imagine I did.. I don't even know what the part is. Thanks for all the help!

http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/bisnettda23/media/IMG_20130609_180112_564_zps63bc82d8.jpg.html

http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/bisnettda23/media/IMG_20130609_180104_018_zps8bdcf013.jpg.html