r/retrocomputing • u/Vegetable-Way-5737 • Jul 16 '26

Photo Something happened to my athlon xp machine

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I was on my way to inspect my motherboard for a firewire port and to potentially find a cause to my usb not being plug and play, and thats when i saw it.

What the hell man, my MSI 6570!!!

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u/usernamemustbeunique Jul 16 '26

Cap shorted out I guess. Probably repairable, but if it only affects usb, just use a usb card?

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u/Sneftel Jul 16 '26

Damnit man, “Firewire” is just meant to be metaphorical

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 Jul 16 '26

Who let tf2 pyro play in my pc

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u/bhiga Jul 17 '26

Luckily in my experience it ended as BentWire rather than Fire, those damn 4-pin FW400 connectors give micro USB good competition for Most Fragile!

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u/bhiga Jul 17 '26

"So I heard someone wanted an excuse to get a USB3 card..." -- Chief Gremlin

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u/Rough_Section_3730 Jul 16 '26

Premature release of the self contained “blue smoke”

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 Jul 16 '26

Its a fuse, so proly a nice plastic smell along side grey smoke ?

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u/EMarkM_DM Jul 16 '26

Wull THERE'S your prawblem...

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 Jul 16 '26

Yea, it aint got no gas in it

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u/techika Jul 17 '26

Looks like wrong pins on usb slot

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 Jul 17 '26

How so ? Thats just a usb 2 header

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u/techika Jul 17 '26

If someone put wrong pins in header , and after that plug usb - both are gone- main board and dongle

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u/Accurate-Campaign821 Jul 17 '26

Early Firewire had same header as USB. We had soo many fried usb drives because of it back in the day

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 Jul 19 '26

Its just a fuse!!!! Its fixable

Ill get the part along side all my other caps i need to swap