Well, I tried putting the motherboard on a test bed and using my friend's spare 300W power supply. I tried powering it up without the CPU and anything plugged in. JUST the motherboard and the power button. When we pressed the power button I saw a flash inside the power supply, the lights flickered, my friend's UPS went off, and then the entire motherboard and power supply just stopped working. There was no power LED on, on the motherboard. There's no way I'm trying that one again, with the flash and everything. So what's wrong now? Two motherboards or two power supplies?
Ok, here's my current running theory for what happened. My enermax killed my KT3-Ultra forcing me to get a KD7. My enermax was still borken, so it killed my KD7. So when I tried my friends 300W PSU, it caused a feeback loop (or something like that) which surged back through the power supply, and through the step-up transformers inside the PSU, back through the wall at an elevated voltage, which caused the lights in the room to flicker, and the UPS for my friend's computer to report a power surge. Sounds right to me. THe problem would be, why did my Enermax kill my motherboards in the first place? I've never opened it, I've never plugged it into anything but a surge protector. I've taken the utmost care to ensure that all of my computer was static free (go static wipes!) and yet, I've had all of these problems. WHY!?!? I'll talk to the enermax PR people or the enermax person that's on this board to see what could be the problem. Any help/opinions would be greatly appreciated.
I know why.. it happened to a friend of mine a while ago.. the thing is that it mostly happen with generic psu. The current in your house is never stable and always fluctuate a little bit... that's a reason why some people use UPS. so if it fluctuate a little too much it can mess you psu making it unleash more current that it should do and to your hardware... now... this is what happened to my friend and half of his system fried... but since you only have problems with your mobo... I don,t know if it applies... I'm not sure but I think so... rma that mobo and buy another psu... that's the only thing you can do since both are messed up...
Every time I see this thread I cant help but think just how big is this BIG motherboard , lol Sorry, I cant think of anything constructive to say other than it sounds like you have it narrowed down to a PSU problem.
