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Originally Posted by michaelk
Does the motherboard still work?
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It does, the import of my comment that I had another PS.
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Originally Posted by pan64
clean (both sides of) the connector to restore the connection, probably that will be enough.
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Not really cleanable because it's recessed inside its plug. The whole plastic portion of that wire on the plug is burnt. It's not just dirty.
After thinking about it, the CPU power has 2 12V wires; 2 because it can draw up to 16A and that's more than one wire can carry. (The MB has 3 and it's rated at 12A.) If one wire failed, all the current would go through the other. Neither of the ground wires is burnt, which would be the case if they're both good. So that's a sensible guess about what happened.