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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: TheBoy on 29 August 2008, 20:48:17
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My old desktop.
It started smoking from somewhere around the system board, then promptly locked up. Oddly, wouldn't boot after that.
Do you reckon its toast?
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My old desktop.
It started smoking from somewhere around the system board, then promptly locked up. Oddly, wouldn't boot after that.
Do you reckon its toast?
Oh dear you let the smoke out - unless you can find a refill I think you are stuffed
Try this
http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm
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Signs of smoke from mobo usually means its b*lloxed :-/
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Smoke is a good indicater to say its stuffed. :-/
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Smoke is never good....
It has been locking intermittently for a while, and the HDD is fubar (one of the old OOF ones, so well thrashed)....
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Signs of smoke from mobo usually means its b*lloxed :-/
You need to fix the leak then refill it
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Well i think yu were just damned clumsy with it!!! ;D
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FFS, 12V and about 5 amps is the maximum Watts the mobo gets. That's not enough to blow smoke that you could smell, let alone see from outside.
Try a new power supply. I bet it perks up, good as new.
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FFS, 12V and about 5 amps is the maximum Watts the mobo gets. That's not enough to blow smoke that you could smell, let alone see from outside.
Try a new power supply. I bet it perks up, good as new.
Added to 5v at around 15A, and 3.3v at several amps as well....
Its an old 3Ghz P4, time to retire it methinks.
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Thought I'd toasted mine a while back -- turned out I had fried the PSU -- whacked a new one in and Robert's yer mother's brother :y
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Thought I'd toasted mine a while back -- turned out I had fried the PSU -- whacked a new one in and Robert's yer mother's brother :y
Don't think its a PSU fault - the lockups that its been doing does smack of PSU fault, but my experieneced nose tells me otherwise. I cannot explain why, I think its the video card.
The failing HDD is, I reckon, unrelated....
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Thought I'd toasted mine a while back -- turned out I had fried the PSU -- whacked a new one in and Robert's yer mother's brother :y
Don't think its a PSU fault - the lockups that its been doing does smack of PSU fault, but my experieneced nose tells me otherwise. I cannot explain why, I think its the video card.
The failing HDD is, I reckon, unrelated....
Fan clogged up with dust.?
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12V x 5A = 60W
5V x 15A = 75W
3.3V x 30A = 100W
Was the smoke you saw akin to a blown lightbulb? If more then the PSU is the only place that you can make 'good smoke' :)
If not, the system is toast and you'd better tell Mrs TB that unexpected expenditure is urgent and imminent... :y
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Time for a new PC me thinks!
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The favourites I've seen are PSU going pop, cheap capacitors on the motherboard going pop, and the fan on the video card siezing whereby the video chip overheats, causing crashes until it burns up or de-solders itself from the board.
Kevin
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my trusty 8 year old PC died the other day, PSU blew.... time to make a call. I aint buying a replacement PSU!
Looks like i am making the switch to Mac..... :-X
Got an Intel Chipped Mac Mini, just upgraded it to OSX Leopard, looks like it will be my main machine now!
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The favourites I've seen are PSU going pop, cheap capacitors on the motherboard going pop, and the fan on the video card siezing whereby the video chip overheats, causing crashes until it burns up or de-solders itself from the board.
Kevin
vga card is passively cooled. Its an old mid range ati 9600 radeon
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I was right, replacement vga card, and it all sprang in to life....
....for about 4hrs, then the HDD started banging, and it blue screened. Seens to hang in loading XP now, with losts of HDD clunking, before resetting...
...guess I need to dig around for another HDD for it now....
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I was right, replacement vga card, and it all sprang in to life....
....for about 4hrs, then the HDD started banging, and it blue screened. Seens to hang in loading XP now, with losts of HDD clunking, before resetting...
...guess I need to dig around for another HDD for it now....
Sure the PSU hasn't gone iffy and started taking out the rest of the system? Might be worth putting a mutimeter across each rail before soending too much on it.
Kevin
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As sure as eggs is eggs it's fu**ed.
Time to release the moths from your wallet. :y :y
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As sure as eggs is eggs it's fu**ed.
Time to release the moths from your wallet. :y :y
Ouch!
It probably isn't too long before OOF needs new hardware again either...
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My old desktop.
It started smoking from somewhere around the system board, then promptly locked up. Oddly, wouldn't boot after that.
Do you reckon its toast?
You spilt Stella in it didn't you..... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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My old desktop.
It started smoking from somewhere around the system board, then promptly locked up. Oddly, wouldn't boot after that.
Do you reckon its toast?
You spilt Stella in it didn't you..... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You bringing your Tosh to Newent? ;D
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Nqt blqqdy likelq!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Nqt blqqdy likelq!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Ah, to the Q is fixed then ;D
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