sh*t happens, fei hung. happened quite a lot of times 2 me as well. fried my mobo for demented reason. seemed that the mobo manufacturer opted 2 use inferior capacitors which actually have lower values than specified so when pushed, they blew.

about the graphic card, i'm sorry 2 hear that. a friend had his fried as well. his prob was more obvious though. the passive heatsink dropped & w/o proper dissipation of heat, the GPU went 2 heaven/hell. i have NVidia geforce 4 mx440se & it uses passive heatsink. yep, that means no fan installed. u'll be surprised if u play the computer for 2 hours & check the heat on the GPU is pretty high. just touch the heatsink & u'll know. AMD isn't the only hot processor.

so 4 the rest of u whose GPU is on passive heatsink, go & install a fan on it. u can salvage from your old processor fan (pentium mmx, amd k6-2) & screw it on the GPU heatsink. it's so easy, provided u know what u're doing.

DAD's right about tropical weather that makes heat problem even more dire.

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