foxconn 600A01-6LRS cooks video cards

Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>> Doesnt explain why it killed a PCI video card, if it did that.
>>
>
> It would help a lot, if we knew exactly what broke. Whether
> PCI or AGP or whatever. PCI would be harder to explain, if
> that is the card type, because typically there are other
> PCI chips sitting on the bus, that would also get fried if
> there was a problem common to all of them.

It may however be the only card that uses the rails that are
supplied to the card socket and it may be that the power rail
is out of spec and thats what killed the card if the card did die.

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:43:06 +1000, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

>Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>
>>> Doesnt explain why it killed a PCI video card, if it did that.
>>>
>>
>> It would help a lot, if we knew exactly what broke. Whether
>> PCI or AGP or whatever. PCI would be harder to explain, if
>> that is the card type, because typically there are other
>> PCI chips sitting on the bus, that would also get fried if
>> there was a problem common to all of them.
>
>It may however be the only card that uses the rails that are
>supplied to the card socket and it may be that the power rail
>is out of spec and thats what killed the card if the card did die.
>

Huh? Offhand I can't recall any PCI video cards that don't
use the rails from the card /slot/.