Computer Hardware Help → Re: motherboard caught fire after system battery replaced

I would say the board was ready to give up the ghost and that's probably why you had problems before. To be on the safe side i would also not try to reuse the power supply on that machine either.

Yeah...it was a pretty old board. Since the RAM, CPU and video card are still working fine, I'm replacing the board and power supply. It's not my main machine, but I wanted to make a file server out of it. It wasn't getting used regularly anymore.