- Joined
- Sep 13, 2002
- Location
- Williamsport, PA
ok having some issues. first the HD light on the case would stay solid on. than after like a month and a half of that it decided to die off completley. i doubt the LED burnt out. plus it will flicker every once in a day.
yesterday i smelled something that reminded me of like wrotten cigarettes. it was a smokey smell but had this putrid tint to it. than my computer does one of it's traditional random reboots. and when windows goes to load it says "ntldr missing". so i control alt delete 3 times in a row to the same affect.
so now i'm scratching my head. so i manually turn the power off and unplug it. than plugged it back in after a few minutes and it boot up fine. been running ever since and the smell resurfaced last night a little bit again.
you think the board is die'ing?
after the weird HD light issues the smokey smell the refusing to boot until power cycled.
last night when it was smelly i tried to sniff locate the smell. the HSF and CPU just smells dusty. same with the PSU. seems to be coming from the lower right underneath the drives. total guess ont that though.
yesterday i smelled something that reminded me of like wrotten cigarettes. it was a smokey smell but had this putrid tint to it. than my computer does one of it's traditional random reboots. and when windows goes to load it says "ntldr missing". so i control alt delete 3 times in a row to the same affect.
so now i'm scratching my head. so i manually turn the power off and unplug it. than plugged it back in after a few minutes and it boot up fine. been running ever since and the smell resurfaced last night a little bit again.
you think the board is die'ing?
after the weird HD light issues the smokey smell the refusing to boot until power cycled.
last night when it was smelly i tried to sniff locate the smell. the HSF and CPU just smells dusty. same with the PSU. seems to be coming from the lower right underneath the drives. total guess ont that though.