yegum

thank you for your replies, i have realised that what ever caused my motherboard to burn out will probally cause problems in the future again and i will probally need to replace my motherboard.i also realise that other componants probally have been ruined or worn down due to the excess amount of current that caused my track to burn out, but l will continue to use my motherboard until it goes for good (hopefully it will not take anything else with it :confused:). i have heard that my motherboard is not a very good overclocker and that the design is poor the ram issues however which i described before seemed to have dissapeared which makes me think that my motherboard was indeed faulty from the beginning and that the copper track that burnted out could not carry the excess current to my ram modeules to operate then properly thus causing my computor to crash. anyway again thankyou for your replies

well the copper track got so hot it burnted away the layer which coats it and melted some of the copper which explains why my bios was indicating a missing ram, so i bridged the gap with some solder and super glued the track back in place to electrically insulate it (not the best thing to use but the only thing avalible to me), it was tricky since the track was very thin (i had to do it under a magnefing glass and machine a new solder iron tip) i was lucky that i cut the power in time to the computor when i smelt smoke because who knows what else may of blown.

welll i looked behind the motherboard and found that one of the thin copper tracks running from the ram socket had burnt out so i soldered a new one and the computer seems to be working fine, the 2gb ram which was causing my computer to crash has'nt caused any problems yet. so it seems i have fixed my problem but i may change my motherboard in the future since i have heard it is not very good.is there a mobo thats suports am2 but features a ddr3 socket

well i think it is the ram socket or the components accosiated with it, i can not see any blackining on the surface of the motherboard so i am probally going to check behind it,both of the socket seem to have gone. i am begining to wonder if i had purchased a faulty motherboard in the begining since my computor kept on crashing i replaced the ram to an lower spec and send the faulty ram to amd, they returned it saying there was no fault with the ram and it was a bios issue so it may of been a faulty ram socket from the begining. anyway i probally going to have to replace my motherboard, anyone know of any good mobo which is under £50 and has similar specs or better than my mine

well the little smoke i did smell seemed to come from the ram socket so it could be my ram socket on my motherboard that has gone bust,i have got 2 ram modules one being a 1gb and the other being 2gb i have swapped both around in the ram socket and have tryed with one in and one out but have had no luck. if it is the ram socket is there any way the replace the socket without replacing the motherboard.

the beeps are continous they are also in a pattern ( beep,beep,beep_beep,beep,beep_beep,beep,beep etc)

hi i am new to forums and i have a problem with my pc when i power up i get no display on my monitor and the motherboard speaker keeps beeping.all the fans on the tower spin and the keyboard lights up. i have cleared the cmos by removing the battery and shorting. The problem arised after changing some of the bios settings,i then accidently tryed to boot the pc without the ram properly inserted and i could smell smoke but quickly turned the pc off. i think it is the motherboard but am not too sure can someone please help (amd phenom quad core 2.2 ghz, 1 gb ram ,nvidia hybrid sli 8100 motherboard)