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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Help, my computer is working
 
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Crazy Achmed
Mar 13, 2001

 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.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Help, my computer is working