v9 exploded w/ infinity!!! why?

[ihaveanosebleed]

WOW!! I hope I never see something like that happen to me! Talk about your catastrophic failure. I’ve never seen any device blow out at 3 different locations. 3V line looks like it might have shorted out on the shield if no tape was cover over the chip itself, I always put some insulating tape over my chip, especial at that location. I can’t imagine the 3V short to cause a mess like that but sounds like something definitely shorted out. Big mess at the Controller port ribbon? Maybe the controller cable get damaged and short out on the 7.5V line. Not too many good parts left on that machine, I’d dare say.