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that's not a typo in subject line. like three months ago I was playing a video game and the video suddenly went out, followed by the sound, and the unmistakable smell of electronics burning. I immediately yanked the cord and after a while, disassembled the thing and checked everything over. there was nothing obviously burnt-out, and I looked at everything I could, including the caps on the power supply (not bulging at least). I put it all together and it's been working fine ever since. bios shows voltages are all in-line. all fans appear to be spinning. the thing has run without a single issue since. now I'm no hardware elecromechanic, but I do know enough to know that what I'm dealing with doesn't make a lot of sense. it's not like the Terminator where after getting jabbed with a metal spike it magically reroutes to an alternate power source, or is it? is my computer powered by the souls of the damned?
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The Management posted:your computer was burning away carbon buildup on the power couplings. it normally only happens if you are powering your machine with dirty power, like coal, or if your voltage mixture is too rich. the burning is good, it prevents the buildup from clogging your flux manifold which slows down your cycles Can I clean it by running it through the dishwasher? Should I have this questioned answered before I have attempted it? TerminalRaptor fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Oct 31, 2020 |
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Oct 31, 2020 22:58
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Victory Position posted:breaking in your computer, basking in the new computer smell, It's almost ten years old OP. I think those were fermented ones and zeroes I smelt. It's just gotta last until I build my 5900 this month, or assuming there's any to be had. Lol at me finding a 3080 to put in it though. What do ripped threads smell like?
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Nov 1, 2020 22:58
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All 16GB are supposedly still there. If some of the RAM did fry I would think I'd have had system instability by now. As a serious guess, I'm wondering if a capacitor did short and when the power was disconnected it broke the short. Whatever cap it was isn't vital enough to fail the system alone. I don't know enough hardware to know if it's really a thing that can happen. I'm not prepared to rule out it's something I don't use on the board that fried, but I've tested almost everything at some point.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:04
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President Beep posted:got 'em. Beeped again, by proxy
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Nov 2, 2020 18:46
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Crazy Achmed posted:serious post, it could be some kind of circuit protection component that burnt. like, the original event might have been some kind of power spike etc that made a protection diode or something get hot and smelly, could have also caused the cut-out that you saw. reason why it works fine now without any smell is that the damaged component only ever kicks in during power spikes and stuff, so if this is what happened then it’ll keep working fine until your power lines get struck by lightning or something. Well it is and always had been on a UPS so maybe there's hope there.
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