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My mom's box died today 
Abit VH6-II mobo
Intel Celery 950
128x2 SDRam
Ati generic vid card
Broadcom HomePNA adapter
CDROM
HD Drive
Floppy
Something blew up and I'm not sure what. I haven't had a full chance to inspect it, but the machine does power up. She says she plugged in the mouse while the machine was running .. and her screen went blank.. I powered the machine down and then back up and did indeed smell something burning, she had noticed it was making some type of "clicking" noise in the days prior but I was never able to verify this or what was causing it.
Anyhoo I would like suggestions as to what to do with this one. It is a custom built system.... and without looking at it right at the moment.. I'm guessing motherboard died, My only fear is replacing the mobo and then finding out it was some other part which then causes the new board to blow up, has it been anyone's experience that if a component (lets say for arguments sake) a video card goes tits up fries the AGP slot, can the card be considered suspect to cause another issue with a replacement board?
Drew
Abit VH6-II mobo
Intel Celery 950
128x2 SDRam
Ati generic vid card
Broadcom HomePNA adapter
CDROM
HD Drive
Floppy
Something blew up and I'm not sure what. I haven't had a full chance to inspect it, but the machine does power up. She says she plugged in the mouse while the machine was running .. and her screen went blank.. I powered the machine down and then back up and did indeed smell something burning, she had noticed it was making some type of "clicking" noise in the days prior but I was never able to verify this or what was causing it.
Anyhoo I would like suggestions as to what to do with this one. It is a custom built system.... and without looking at it right at the moment.. I'm guessing motherboard died, My only fear is replacing the mobo and then finding out it was some other part which then causes the new board to blow up, has it been anyone's experience that if a component (lets say for arguments sake) a video card goes tits up fries the AGP slot, can the card be considered suspect to cause another issue with a replacement board?
Drew