Burning smell from PC?

w0rmh0lez

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Sep 29, 2013
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Hello guys

My PC has been running fine for a few days up until today. I switched it on and I just hear a loud whine and nothing coming up on the displays. The shortly after I start to smell smoke!! So I quickly turn off my computer and try to figure out what the heck happened. I sence the smell coming from the video card. The fans still spin up and all but nothing. I also disconnected the power from the video card and the system booted up just fine.

My motherboard has the post code 34 and I have an Asus Rampage 4 Formula. What is going on??? The rest of my specs are below

CPU: i7 3970x
Motherboard: Asus Rampage 4 Formula
GPU: XFX r9 290x
Power supply: Silverstone Strider Gold 1000w
Boot Drive: OCZ Revodrive 3 240GB
PCIE SSD
 


I'm thinking it could be the video card. If yiou another one try it and see what happens.