Hopefully someone here might be able to offer some advice. My PC was running fine but suddenly one day I noticed a smokey smell coming from my tower. So far I can't tell where it's coming from, the power source, CPU, or even a fan with worn out bearings or something. I also noticed that my PC's temperatures are reaching 140 degrees F. Everything in the tower looks the same as it did a year ago when I put it together except the smell. Any ideas?
I would say, try finding a program such as everest to test your heat sources. It might be able to show that your mobo is going too hot or your cpu or your video card. Maybe the case fans aren't working? I am a noob so try not to take my advice too seriously.
Yeah I did that, all 3 are functioning. One on the CPU heatsink, one on the back of the case, and the one on the video card. I should probably also mention that I'm not overclocking or anything like that.
Hopefully someone here might be able to offer some advice. My PC was running fine but suddenly one day I noticed a smokey smell coming from my tower. So far I can't tell where it's coming from, the power source, CPU, or even a fan with worn out bearings or something. I also noticed that my PC's temperatures are reaching 140 degrees F. Everything in the tower looks the same as it did a year ago when I put it together except the smell. Any ideas?Vuud
If you have a lot of dust and stuff inside it, it would clog up the air flow and thus make everything hotter if it's not getting air to the parts. Just my thought on it.
You may be right. But would that explain the increase in temperature? It was around 120-125 now it's 140Vuud
yes the dust will insulate the parts and make them hotter as well as clogging fans, filters and genraly inpeding airflow, id clean your case before anything else.Take out your cpu heatsink remove the fan from it and clean it with a toothbrush to get the dustballs out of the grooves. Apply fresh thermal compoud too,.
Yep use the can, never use a vacuum cleaner with a hose on it, they can produce static charge. Also one of your fans may be going bad, I know when my big box fan died last summer it had a smell like Akron during the tire burning festival.
Well I went through every crevice with my dust off and for now the temperature seems to have stabilized. I had no idea how bad the dust had gotten. thx, I was surprised by your rapid responses.
Yep use the can, never use a vacuum cleaner with a hose on it, they can produce static charge. Also one of your fans may be going bad, I know when my big box fan died last summer it had a smell like Akron during the tire burning festival.Zoomer30
lol You CAN use a vacuum, just don't touch anything with the hose tip. I've used a vacuum plenty of times, no problem. I see you must be from Ohio, too, eh?
Well I went through every crevice with my dust off and for now the temperature seems to have stabilized. I had no idea how bad the dust had gotten. thx, I was surprised by your rapid responses.Vuud
[QUOTE="TheLiberal"][QUOTE="Zoomer30"]Yep use the can, never use a vacuum cleaner with a hose on it, they can produce static charge. Also one of your fans may be going bad, I know when my big box fan died last summer it had a smell like Akron during the tire burning festival.ForlornHope
lol You CAN use a vacuum, just don't touch anything with the hose tip. I've used a vacuum plenty of times, no problem. I see you must be from Ohio, too, eh?
yeah but only an idiot would take that kind of risk it would be easy to touch.
[QUOTE="ForlornHope"][QUOTE="TheLiberal"][QUOTE="Zoomer30"]Yep use the can, never use a vacuum cleaner with a hose on it, they can produce static charge. Also one of your fans may be going bad, I know when my big box fan died last summer it had a smell like Akron during the tire burning festival.TheLiberal
lol You CAN use a vacuum, just don't touch anything with the hose tip. I've used a vacuum plenty of times, no problem. I see you must be from Ohio, too, eh?
yeah but only an idiot would take that kind of risk it would be easy to touch.
Not unless you're drunk. :roll: they make small vacuum attatchments for big vacuums to be used on the PC.
[QUOTE="TheLiberal"][QUOTE="ForlornHope"][QUOTE="TheLiberal"][QUOTE="Zoomer30"]Yep use the can, never use a vacuum cleaner with a hose on it, they can produce static charge. Also one of your fans may be going bad, I know when my big box fan died last summer it had a smell like Akron during the tire burning festival.9mmSpliff
lol You CAN use a vacuum, just don't touch anything with the hose tip. I've used a vacuum plenty of times, no problem. I see you must be from Ohio, too, eh?
yeah but only an idiot would take that kind of risk it would be easy to touch.
Not unless you're drunk. :roll: they make small vacuum attatchments for big vacuums to be used on the PC.
Apparently I'm not the only "idiot" who's able to vacuum his computer without ruining it. :roll: lol
Yep use the can, never use a vacuum cleaner with a hose on it, they can produce static charge. Also one of your fans may be going bad, I know when my big box fan died last summer it had a smell like Akron during the tire burning festival.Zoomer30
My dad is an engineer, a semi conductor and he uses a vacuum, and so do I, and nothing has ever happened, just don't make them on carpet, or place your cpu anywhere, other than an anti static bag.
Problem solved. Turns out the fan inside the power supply was broken. When I looked inside the power supply there were scorch marks so it was totally ruinated. :evil: wish I found out sooner because I had to end up buying a new one.
Problem solved. Turns out the fan inside the power supply was broken. When I looked inside the power supply there were scorch marks so it was totally ruinated. :evil: wish I found out sooner because I had to end up buying a new one.Vuud
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