Major bummer....

[phlip]

I just recieved my athlon 64 3000 yesterday. Put it into my msi kt800 neo installed windows played a few games....then i decided to plug the cable into the nic and for some reason i didnt think to shut the comp off. and then boom! fried out the mobo......anyone else ever had something like that happen?

[versello]

Plug a network cable into the NIC? Never heard or seen a comp go crazy over that... and I have the same mobo.

[phlip]

neither have i....and i still have parts coming for it like a serial ata 150 80gig hard drive with 8 megs cache..and now i have to wait 2 weeks to order a new mobo.....could it have fried the cpu by any chance? i know my mem and video card are ok

[phlip]

Plug a network cable into the NIC? and yes thats what i did....i tried clearing teh cmos and everything....

[kryyst]

Nope never had that happen, actually never even heard of that happening. I've seen nics fried before as a result of a search but it was because of other factors not just plugging a cable in. Hell I plug in cables to live machines constantly to test things out. Definitely send it back that shouldn't happen.

[hillary's bane]

i do that at my office almost daily...you got owned man! any chance you can get the vender to replace anything? by the way who did you buy from?

[GnomeWizardd]

dirty power

[phlip]

dirty power???? ya i am gonna rma as soon as i find teh receipt...just gonna say it never worked

[phlip]

I was hoping it would bump me up a few notches in folding as well...