It's giving off this sort of burning plastic smell when i turn it on. smells sort of like some moisturiser cream... yesterday i could swear i saw some smoke rising from the area under my desk where the CPU is. I've cleaned off the dust from the fan and air holes behind... but i'm too afraid it will burn into the floor or something if i turn it on again. What should I do now and why is it happening?
2007-10-06 20:54:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It doesn't have the carbon smoke smell... it just smells like moisturiser. it's intoxicating... my bro says it smells electronic... Whatever that means. hope it helps yall to answer.
2007-10-06 21:13:43 · update #1
Im going to bet that the Capacitors on the motherboard or inside the powersupply went out. just open it and take a look.
Go to www.badcaps.net for the pictures on what to look for. If the motherboard is fine Replace the power supply.
2007-10-06 23:22:03 · answer #1 · answered by James S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it to late if you smell,smoke, and the dust take side cover off see how bad it is but you can probbly dump it and get the credit card out. But lucky for you the news had on yesterday that WAL-MARTs putting things on sale early this year for XMAS
2007-10-06 21:08:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn it off and take it to a repair shop about 3 days ago.
Something is overheating badly or shorting out and WILL cause a fire.
2007-10-06 20:58:57 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite obviously, something is overheating. If you've already evicted the dust bunnies, and there's still issues, it's time to take it in and have a professional look at it...
2007-10-06 20:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by Valdis K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same thing with mine the power supply or the fan inside the system get them re-newed
2007-10-06 23:54:01 · answer #5 · answered by Ross H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turn it off imediately
call a computer tech tomorrow and explain the situation
2007-10-06 20:59:13 · answer #6 · answered by Melody-Lynn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the memory (RAM) on your pc. Replace it
2007-10-06 21:01:47 · answer #7 · answered by Raymond 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋