Exploding HDMI cables?

[Josh | NFC]

Now I have seen everything (that I will see today at least.)

Customer bought this HDMI cable.

Customer plugged it into the back of a R9 480, and the other end into his TV.

He described the event as "TV s**t started exploding!" "sparks were coming out of the GPU...just not nearly as bad as TV"

Here is the resulting aftermath:

What could have caused this? PC and GPU are fine (and working great with his monitor.) Because it was the first time he plugged in that new cable, I'm guessing it was built wrong. Kinda weird though, the amount of voltage HDMI carries should have taken a while to fuse that plastic!

 

[Kmpkt]

Wasn't by any chance this GPU out in the wild, was it?

https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/halp-system-wont-boot-with-gpu-powered.1023/

: )

 

[cmyk78]

R9 480

New GPU?

 

[Josh | NFC]

Wasn't by any chance this GPU out in the wild, was it?

https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/halp-system-wont-boot-with-gpu-powered.1023/

: )

lmao, no.

Just another exploding coincidence. Seems to be going around on SFF.net lately.

And as an FYI, if any part of a customer's rig explodes on my assembly bench, that would count as "failure."

Now for my stuff...as long as it works afterwards....

 

[jeshikat]

A cursory web search shows other people experiencing high voltage surges over the HDMI connection on various TVs and frying either the TV, receiver, or both.

 

[EdZ]

Josh, you haven't by any chance been saying anything rude about Thor lately, have you?

 

[Runamok81]

Josh, you haven't by any chance been saying anything rude about Thor lately, have you?

It seems like no one has been saying anything to Thor lately.


You wouldn't know anything about that EdZ?