[coastie65]

My second eMachines with the Pentium D had the Intel D102GGC2 MOBO. Forgot what the first one with the Celeron D had, but think it was an eMachines thing maybe ( it did have an Intel graphics chipset though ).

[Dellinsp531]

Sorry to hear about you computer and the lost of files. I just got back from the Pax and tech gathering. It was very small chance that this would have happen. It is sometimes difficult to help over the forums since you can not see and check things on site.

Have you tried to return the card back to Microcenter?

[HG]

Dellinsp531, on 18 April 2012 - 06:26 AM, said:

Sorry to hear about you computer and the lost of files. I just got back from the Pax and tech gathering. It was very small chance that this would have happen. It is sometimes difficult to help over the forums since you can not see and check things on site.

Have you tried to return the card back to Microcenter?

Thanks for that. You were the only one that mentioned that there might be a problem.

No, I have not. The card has burns on it so not sure if they will take it back.

Thanks to others as well...Here is what the problem was occuring to the guy.
The best buy guy said that the 12V rail only had 150Amps or something like that so the 300W power supply would not work with this card, which is why the whole computer exploded. He said that they could try to recover the hard drive for like $800 bucks, but he was not sure if they could get anything from it. He said that mostly all data is damaged and not recoverable based on the damage that the PSU did to the hard drive.

Well went back to my other topic to see what I should get to replaced my broken desktop now.

This post has been edited by HG: 08 May 2012 - 10:26 AM

[LiveBrianD]

Hmm, 15A on the 12V rail? Dang, that's awfully low, 180W. (volts*amps=watts) By the way, 150 amps @ 12V would be 1800W - impossible for a 300W watt unit!

For the hard drive, one suggestion I'll throw out there is replacing the PCB in it (which just might work here). Basically, you buy another one of the same model, firmware, manufactured in the same country on a similar date, and swap it. (it's the circuit board on the bottom of the drive) I suppose it might be worth a shot...

[Dellinsp531]

It must be 15Amps.

Try returing the video card and if they give you a hard time than contact the manfucture.

For the hard drive, try talk to the tech guy at microcenter. They will give you a better help with the hard drive than best buy. I am not a big fan of best buy since it is very bad.

Example, I was in the Best buy store (no my choice to be in the store, helping a friend pick up appliances) and employee did not even know how to check what the graphic card was in the laptop when a customer asked about. He look at the tag next to the laptop and than said that will have to search on internet to find what it is. I told them open device manger and it gives you what the card is. After that, she asked me what to get. I gave her the sager website and told her to get one of those. She thanked me and left the store.

[HG]

Sorry. It was a typo. It should have been 15 amps.

Will try later this week to return it and see if they take back the card. And will check about the hard drive for a second opinion.

[HG]

Dellinsp531, on 10 May 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

It must be 15Amps.

Try returing the video card and if they give you a hard time than contact the manfucture.

For the hard drive, try talk to the tech guy at microcenter. They will give you a better help with the hard drive than best buy. I am not a big fan of best buy since it is very bad.

Example, I was in the Best buy store (no my choice to be in the store, helping a friend pick up appliances) and employee did not even know how to check what the graphic card was in the laptop when a customer asked about. He look at the tag next to the laptop and than said that will have to search on internet to find what it is. I told them open device manger and it gives you what the card is. After that, she asked me what to get. I gave her the sager website and told her to get one of those. She thanked me and left the store.

Thanks. They took the video card back. Plus they recovered about 30% of the hard drive for $80 bucks. They said that there was other things they could do but it would cost like $500 and up and not sure if they could recover the the 70%. I got back some of my photos and documents. Thanks again for the advice.

[Dellinsp531]

Your welcome. Like I said, bestbuy is not the best. Microcenter is a little better than bsetbuy. Glad that they were able to help you out.

[Gavin101]

I couldn't find any clear labeling on exactly what kind of PCIe slot it is, x16, x4, x1, and what rev, but it looks like a PCIe x16 one from the pictures, and besides, the different revs. of it are all compatible.