- Dec 6, 2013
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I have a crap but useful PC which has a lot of problems, like BSODs, freezes and restarting randomly. However, these random problems would stop when 10 minutes or more are spent -without any problems- inside Windows, so it wasn't dead yet.
But these random restarts and BSODs were so annoying, so I started searching the cause of the BSODs and trying the solutions I found on Google (I didn't change any hardware). But instead of solving the problem, it became worse! I knew back then that the cause of the problem
is hardware related.
Anyway, the main problem begins here: PC restarted as usual, but it didn't beep this time (It did that a couple of times before but it beeped when I removed RAM stick, and the pc would work after several times of switching between RAM sticks), and I thought that it was the same annoying problem, and I was tired of this, so I took apart the motherboard and put water on a toothbrush and started cleaning it (I don't know why I did this actually XD but I read on a website that it's safe somehow). After that, I turned on the PC and I heard weird sounds coming from a fan, then I smelled something like burning near the CPU (most likely it's from the PSU), I tried to turn it off by the power button but it didn't work, so I turned it off by the socket switch. After two days maybe, I turned it on again and it runs without a smell, but no beep sounds, even when removing RAM or video card, and I tried to remove everything except motherboard, CPU and PSU, but it didn't beep. After that, I tried to clean the motherboard with an aftershave (because it worked with a washer machine) but it didn't work. On the other hand, the light of the PS/2 mouse and the light of the wireless LAN card are on...
I want to know the hardware that caused the no beep problem so I can remove it. It must be one of the three; PSU, motherboard and CPU. Any help will be much appreciated
and sorry if it was too long.
But these random restarts and BSODs were so annoying, so I started searching the cause of the BSODs and trying the solutions I found on Google (I didn't change any hardware). But instead of solving the problem, it became worse! I knew back then that the cause of the problem
is hardware related.
Anyway, the main problem begins here: PC restarted as usual, but it didn't beep this time (It did that a couple of times before but it beeped when I removed RAM stick, and the pc would work after several times of switching between RAM sticks), and I thought that it was the same annoying problem, and I was tired of this, so I took apart the motherboard and put water on a toothbrush and started cleaning it (I don't know why I did this actually XD but I read on a website that it's safe somehow). After that, I turned on the PC and I heard weird sounds coming from a fan, then I smelled something like burning near the CPU (most likely it's from the PSU), I tried to turn it off by the power button but it didn't work, so I turned it off by the socket switch. After two days maybe, I turned it on again and it runs without a smell, but no beep sounds, even when removing RAM or video card, and I tried to remove everything except motherboard, CPU and PSU, but it didn't beep. After that, I tried to clean the motherboard with an aftershave (because it worked with a washer machine) but it didn't work. On the other hand, the light of the PS/2 mouse and the light of the wireless LAN card are on...
I want to know the hardware that caused the no beep problem so I can remove it. It must be one of the three; PSU, motherboard and CPU. Any help will be much appreciated
and sorry if it was too long.
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