Reply 20 of 33, by EvieSigma
luckybob wrote on 2020-02-17, 20:08:mosfets don't pop like that without reason (generally speaking) […]
mosfets don't pop like that without reason (generally speaking)
I see two likely scenarios:
#1: Shorted caps. you should replace all the large electrolytic caps (and the bad part), should be right as rain after that.
#2: You plugged something into the agp port that overloaded that mosfet
The only thing I plugged into that AGP port was a Radeon 9600 AGP card that was previously working in another machine. Caps are cheap so I might as well try a recap.