Kentucky fried speaker wire

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I purchased an inexpensive ($25) CDROM drive made by MSI.
I installed it (changing out the old one that went dead).
It worked for a few minutes, then smoke started comming
from the computer. After investigation I discovered that
the insulation on the speaker wire had been melted away. I
did not do anything except change the CDROM, drive the
speaker wire had ben installed one year before and was
working fine. I needed the machine up and running so I
purchased a new motherboard, power supply and CDROM Drive
re-fitted everything else and now it's up and running. Any
ideas on what happened? Are that old motherboard / power
supply still usable?

thanks
Liquidman
 
Sounds like you went to a lot of expense when a simple
solution was handy.
Most likely when you did the cd install you moved the
speaker wire against something, and it shorted out,
melting the insulation, it's possible the mb is still good
try this, install the old mb in an old case, using the old
PS, do not plug in the speaker wire, see if it boots up,
if so VOILA, problem solved. if not you now know it's bad.
I don't think it's a problem with the power supply, it
wouldn't have melted just the speaker wire, it would have
fried the entire MB/CPU or just quit supplying power.
 
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