This afternoon I started feeling the smell of something burning and it took me some minutes to find out what was burning. It was my motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP-A Ultra (yes, I had an old PC – I really didn’t need more to use Word and browse the net). See the pictures below. It seems that something was wrong on the +5 V line of my motherboard. On the solder side of the board, I could notice that the area right below the motherboard voltage regulator was darker than the rest of the board. Even though the power supply connector is brown and melted, my PSU is still working fine. Well, it was time to upgrade my system anyway...

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