- Oct 10, 2014
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I have my rig approximately for 9 months and suddenly after no hardware changes while I was testing out a Linux distro on Virtualbox, for the first time ever in my life I experienced a Linux kernel panic(Linux BSOD), That distro was KaOs. I rebooted my PC afterwards.
It ran fine but when I was doing the same VBOX crashed my X but I had no panic I could use the PC. I restarted again and I just surfed the net, everything was fine except the strong smell coming from the PSU I just turned the power switch off.
After an hour and a half I decided to play some GTA V(on Windows) as a power test well not enough but I wanted to see the temps if they were normal or not. They were normal for everything and there was little smell which is normal I had it from the first time I built this PC.
The next day, assuming it was nothing because it had passed away I started my PC(Windows) played some games(not demanding just PCSX2 which is nothing for this machine) I also decided to see the temps while playing and they were still fine, but after some time again the PSU started smelling. It was a pretty strong smell and I could smell from my chair(I sit pretty close to my PC about 30-40 cm from the PSU) I had to wait for the antivirus to update itself(about 40 minutes since I have a newly installed antivirus and very slow internet). During that time I was still playing fine with no problems and the PSU had that smell after 3 hours I decided to give it another go the same thing but I immediately shuted it down.
The room I have my PC is very hot and can reach 35-40 C I have a fan for myself in there.
Recently I had some problems with the electricity in my home and I think my PS3 died from it, I heard some strange noises from it but I don't really care.
Should I replace my PSU or test if I have some kind of overvoltage coming in it?
It ran fine but when I was doing the same VBOX crashed my X but I had no panic I could use the PC. I restarted again and I just surfed the net, everything was fine except the strong smell coming from the PSU I just turned the power switch off.
After an hour and a half I decided to play some GTA V(on Windows) as a power test well not enough but I wanted to see the temps if they were normal or not. They were normal for everything and there was little smell which is normal I had it from the first time I built this PC.
The next day, assuming it was nothing because it had passed away I started my PC(Windows) played some games(not demanding just PCSX2 which is nothing for this machine) I also decided to see the temps while playing and they were still fine, but after some time again the PSU started smelling. It was a pretty strong smell and I could smell from my chair(I sit pretty close to my PC about 30-40 cm from the PSU) I had to wait for the antivirus to update itself(about 40 minutes since I have a newly installed antivirus and very slow internet). During that time I was still playing fine with no problems and the PSU had that smell after 3 hours I decided to give it another go the same thing but I immediately shuted it down.
The room I have my PC is very hot and can reach 35-40 C I have a fan for myself in there.
Recently I had some problems with the electricity in my home and I think my PS3 died from it, I heard some strange noises from it but I don't really care.
Should I replace my PSU or test if I have some kind of overvoltage coming in it?
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