Nooo!!!! Xonar! P5N-D! Not the magic smoke!! Why!!!!?!?!?!?

[billygoat333]

crazy. Good luck with Asus.

[AmEv]

Yeah, I've burnt stuff before.

Stuck a floppy connector with 12V (or was it 5v?) and gnd together.
Thankfully, I just cut off the floppy connector at the other end, at the molex. PSU is fine.

Then there's the lappy internal ribbon. Contacts wore off, shorted together.
Ah well, lappy was dead before attemped surgery.


However, I haven't had the smell of burnt silicon before.

[Konrad]

The smell is an acquired taste. After toasting enough electronics projects you can even identify the different "flavours" between cooked silicon, caps, solder joints, and resistors. Helps troubleshooting a bit.

[billygoat333]

just curious what is the status of this? been looking at soundcards and thinking about Asus. wonder if their customer service will step it up for ya.

[x88x]

Between moving, car trouble, and suddenly actually being busy at work, I actually haven't even pulled the MBB out yet...though I might do that tonight, my office is finally starting to pull into shape. I'll have to check and see if Asus phone support is open on the weekends or nights...hopefully, since that's really the only time I have available.

[AmEv]

Then again, I've also had a sound card that died on me. CT4670. Trace fried at layer switcher connetcor thingy. Tried rubbing off paint and re-soldering; accidentally soldered off more

Ah well. I got a CT4830 with ModCron.

[billygoat333]

Between moving, car trouble, and suddenly actually being busy at work, I actually haven't even pulled the MBB out yet...though I might do that tonight, my office is finally starting to pull into shape. I'll have to check and see if Asus phone support is open on the weekends or nights...hopefully, since that's really the only time I have available.

no worries was just curious

[Snowman]

Wow I am surprised you had any issues with asus, when my mbb took a shizzle from my stupidty/and crash free bios not working properly they said i would have a one day turn around on a reflash or they would send me a brand new board of equal or better value. I will go look up all my info from it if you have any issues.

[x88x]

Well, to be fair, I haven't actually contacted them yet...I've been holding off on that until I have the MBB out of the system....maybe I'll get around to doing that today.

[x88x]

Well, I finally got around to tearing down my system tonight, and....yikes! You know the PCB dye residue that got splattered all over the card and slot? Well, the spray went a bit further than that...there was even some residue on the CPU waterblock!

So, now I get to see how good Asus' customer service is.