A motherboard can't just die can it?

[cros]

So I turned it on the other way and it was working fine, but then it shup off automatically. This has never happened before. Tried booting it up again a few times, but no luck. So I assumed the power supply may have gone, and I bought 2 power supplies just to test it. Neither worked.

The board is a M930LR that has worked great. And I didn't do any recent changes. One side note: there was a smell inside the board that gave the odor of something beaing burded.

Thanks info!

[PrntRhd]

Yes, anything electronic can die.
Magic smoke coming out is usually a bad sign.
Have you checked for bad capacitors? See the sticky post.
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25482

[kiosk]

M930LR? Like, PC CHIPS M930LR? :rolleyes:

PC CHIPS is the notorious manufacturer of the lowest quality boards in the whole market. Their performance was always a good 30% slower than any other board of the same type you could buy.
They put fake cache on their socket 7 boards. They used unbranded chipsets that failed QA tests and put sticky labels with fake company logos on them. They built Pentium 2 boards that were incapable of running actual pentiums :rolleyes: They kept putting faulty exploding capacitors onto their new boards long after the word got out and bad manufacturers were identified. A working PC CHIPS board is a major miracle indeed, and with a reputation like that, they have to hide under many generic brand names to prevent people from identifying them.

Yours, I guess, is smoked because one of the capacitors failed by going short circuit. Do yourself a favor and throw that board in the trash and buy a new one. Just make sure you're not getting another PC CHIPS abomination.