Burning Smell from Motherboard
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Original Message
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Name: KometFan
Date: October 30, 2003 at 05:37:52 Pacific
Subject: Burning Smell from Motherboard
OS: none
CPU/Ram: XP 1700+ 512MB
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Comment: Im fixing a computer for my friend, and when i fired the computer up, i noticed a smell coming from the CPU.. a burning metal type smell.. so i figuar i burned out the CPU, now if i burned out the CPU, will this have damaged the motherboard also?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Derk
Date: October 30, 2003 at 06:04:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Does the comp. still post? What type of mobo is it? A new proulblem with mobo's is that the capacitors blow. Check out this site:
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Feb/bch20030207018535.htm
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Response Number 2
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Name: SkipCox
Date: October 30, 2003 at 09:32:06 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Here's a list of common symptoms on boards with bad capacators http://www.motherboardrepair.com/ and plenty of pics in the link Derk provided.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Derk
Date: October 30, 2003 at 13:16:09 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Ya, I had a ECS k7s5a mobo and the caps around the CPU started to leak and my system started to crash alot. It also smelled really BAD. So I went to me local Radio Shack and bought some new caps for it and now it works perfect again. If you dont catch it rate away they could blow up and run the mobo and other components.
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