A nice burning smell.....

**skinnyman9000** · #1 2nd Oct 2007, 01:34

Well i turned the computer on yesterday to be greeted by a nice burning smell, definately an electrical burn, similar to someone lighting a match. We took the side of the case off to find that the main fan on the back of the computer was not working, however the CPU fan was. My brother and I checked the CPU temperature and it was 43C.

The computer will often fire up, get past the log in screen, then once the said desktop has loaded, it will restart itself. However, it does not show an error message, or attempt to scan the disk for errors like in a manual shut down, it just restarts as if it was asked to. But it only does this the first time you attempt to log on, after the initial restart it behaves as normal.

Any ideas?

The computer is over 3yrs old now, so its more than likely on its way out anyway, its running an impressive AMD Athlon 3400+ processor (single core)

**Hybr!d** · #2 2nd Oct 2007, 01:53

Sounds like the PSU has had it.

**ComputerGuy** · #3 11th Oct 2007, 05:42

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Originally Posted by skinnyman9000

The computer is over 3yrs old now, so its more than likely on its way out anyway,

lol my computer is almost 10 years old so if yours is on its way out. Mine must be a ghost haha.

**chrisbell17** · #4 22nd Nov 2007, 09:36

I take it by fan at the back you mean the power supply fan. The restarts can be caused by the power supply trying to protect itself. Just replace the power supply. There not very expensive

**pete21** · #5 22nd Nov 2007, 09:42

the burning smell prob the dusk burnin in the psu replace psu and see wot hapens :)
try going into safe mode and see if it logs you out if it dont then id say i could be a softwere problem