First casualty

[Mr.Coin]

Just had my first casualty, thankfully only my MB.  Got a message saying my usb was drawing too much power.  Then two of the 5v power supply started melting the plastic on the MB.

[Mad7Scientist]

Something shorted on the board? Does it still work?

[AmDD]

What did you have hooked up to USB? Fpgas?

[GernMiester]

Mine was an HD5870. Power no POST when installed in any PC.
It is costing me 400Mh/s plus shipping to manufacturer.

Do you run an open case? wondering if something fell in....

[kwoody]

My first casualty was a fan failure on an "xtreme" edition Sapphire 5830. instead of waiting for Sapphire to fix it, I attached a fan to it.. it now runs hot, 85c, at stock gpu core clock with underclocked memory.. boo..

[Desolator]

I only used the best parts for my rig so I didn't have a failure ever.  I also have built PCs for customers professionally for years and only had 1 single failure and I told them not to run their gaming PC in an enclosed area that was like 140F like 5 times and they still didn't.  Just buy only tested, respectable parts and run them properly and you won't have a failure.

[dentldir]

Thats funny, I only used the cheapest quality parts and junk I had laying around. Then I bought a bunch of used crap off of eBay.  The whole setup was profitable in a couple of months and is still running today.  Got lucky on the run up to $30.

I only lost one $20 power supply so far.  Still mining today. 

Although, I did have to replace a fan on a 5830 that overheated just like the previous poster.