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    Default When you smell something burning

    Just a bit of FYI for those who can smell something like the scent of magic blue smoke, in the room your home computer is in.

    Around 90% of the time, the cause is failure of the computer power supply fans. The burning smell itself, can be either the controller board in the fan(s) overheating, or else components (or the PCB itself) of the power supply cooking up due to lack of airflow. Sometimes it can be failure of the video card (GPU) fan as well, so when you smell 'something', always check these cooling fans.

    Thought I'd mention this, merely because I've just come back from (yet another) such a job, where the complaint has been 'something burning', but at last report the machine itself was working fine, and when you test the unit it does indeed work fine.

    Replacing the fan(s) is cheap and easy, and less than the cost of a new power-supply (which you likely don't need)

    HTH

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    One of those situations where something relatively cheap can lead to something more expensive if not addressed early.

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