Disaster noob error ...

well now I'm shameful...

it all started when I bought a ATI 9800pro. I was all happy

then I open the box and take everything out. I took the card fan cable and sleeve them. I put the card in, plug the molex, plug the power cord and push power.

everything starts. nothing out of the ordinary.

suddenly everything stops.

I'm like

then I smell something... something that I never smelled before... the smoke of burnt hardware

after investigation... I inverted the 12v and 5v line in the molex of the card fan cable... which burnt the card and messed up my agp slot.

hopefully I could get another 9800 pro card... but I still had to replace my trusty a7n8x ...

all that because I sleeved my fan cable too fast...

 

that stinks, but I supose that you'll never do that again...hopefully.

 

Rookie error


Hope you get a new one

 

Dont feel bad, i did the same to my 80 Gig HDD Lost everything, feedback fried my PSU too. Doh!

 

ouch, expensive error.

 

No worries mate, just earlier I got a 40gig western digi from newegg for $57.50 US w/free shipping. w00t!

And now back to our regularly scheduled topic, sorry bout that!

 

this is another perfectly good reason why i refuse to touch my radeon 9800 pro. , since i dont want to go out and buy another one.

 

well guys forgot that I actually took a pic ^^

here is it:

 

fried? ouch! the pic isn't that clear

 

if you see the apg gold pins you can see that the first one from the left is black...

 

Same here , cost me £250 and since im 15 im not gona have that cash for a new one but i did overclock it to 425, 756 the lesson being: DO NOT INVERT POWERLINES ON A £250QUID CARD!

P2D

EDIT: you should get the gold from the pin thingy and sell it

 

well first I wouldn't get much and second I RMA'ed the card so... ^^

 

nice well good job man! lol but.... ehhh dont do that again

 

If it makes you feel any better I was unscrewing a fan in my PC once, and I don't know how but the screwdriver slipped and went STRAIGHT into my 9800pro. Knocked off a little transistor/resistor/thingymabober on the top.

My roommate said I almost cried when it happened. I can't remember any of I, think I blacked out.

Suprisingly, it still works!!!

 

that would be the Black Speech inscription on the One Ring

 

Hey I actually own that throwing star that you have in your avatar. It is the exact same thing.

 

ahh i did this with my 60gig coz i rewired the cable to my case fan wrong

and just last week my friend was sleeving his cables, put it all back together
and was met with bootdisk failure, apon closer inspection he had pins rounf wrong way on harddrive and burner