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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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TerminalRaptor posted:
if its asrock, yes
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Oct 31, 2020 22:03
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it's alive, op! It's aliiiiiiiiive! System
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TerminalRaptor posted:is my computer powered by the souls of the damned? no, it's just working in service of one - yours 
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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
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Oct 31, 2020 22:51
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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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TerminalRaptor posted:that's not a typo in subject line. your operating system is a piece of poo poo. Address this issue first.
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Oct 31, 2020 23:16
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spooky computer 
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Nov 1, 2020 00:31
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i wish your computer wasnt working tbqh
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thankfully op we know from fiction that nothing bad can happen when something mysteriously returns from the dead
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Nov 1, 2020 04:24
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:no, it's just working in service of one - yours oh gently caress! halloween twist!!
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Nov 1, 2020 04:30
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breaking in your computer, basking in the new computer smell,
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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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My House had a brief blackout. Had to reroute the power to a secondary(we dont have a generator) and use my phone as a third string limit. Involved unplugging the Blu-Ray Player and ethernet and doing a 5 round CPU powercycle do get disk repair running(advanced system repair is actually a POST disk check script, thats why it can often fail after a surge). Got some nice popups of MS-DOS windows. I'm running my own DOS with a windows XP/10 hybrid for GUI and sys32/sys64 linkup. All is stable.
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TerminalRaptor posted:It's almost ten years old OP. I think those were fermented ones and zeroes I smelt. I'm glad I went with an x570 board so I can upgrade later
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Did you check your ram op? Check to see if the amount of ram you have went down. Maybe one stick fried and you didn't know it. Either that or you fried something you never use like the on board modem or some poo poo
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Did you check your ram op? Check to see if the amount of ram you have went down. Maybe one stick fried and you didn't know it. Not only could it be fried and buggy, but it could be the wrong size. The slots on older motherboards can actually fit new DDR5 RAM but the firmware wont accept it.
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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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I'm not gonna tell you to go out and buy headlight fluid. Your computer is working and running fine and youve fixed it.
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your machine probably overheated and the coating on some component started burning.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:07
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Well you better catch it, OP
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SpaceAceJase posted:Well you better catch it, OP got 'em.
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The Management posted:your machine probably overheated and the coating on some component started burning. so thats the burning chrome ive read so much about
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President Beep posted:got 'em. Beeped again, by proxy
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why, that computer was powered off 15 years ago this very night...
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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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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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