- Aug 11, 2015
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Ok guys, thanks in advance for any help, because this is just plain wierd.
1) I just now got a pc off of a friend. It's old but stopped working recently. He sent it to a tech repair guy, and he said the problem was the HDD. I agree, my other pc, when checking the disk, said there had been an unrecovareble error with the drive. It had been reformated. I therefor conclude that this as well as the clicking and grinding noises it started making after a minute meant it was busted.
2) I just turned on the pc, and the moment I do, I smell something wierd, like burning sort of thing. I therefore turned off the power straight away.
I then took each part out, checked if anything melted and smelt it. Nothing.
3) I tried again, same thing.
4) I took the psu out, smelt it and it smelt of burnt stuff. Badly.
5) I then proceded to remove it, and dump it in my garage until my next trip to the skip.
I am getting an old psu from my school that I know works tomorrow, but I wanted to ask here if there was any chance of the cpu being damaged. I didn't subject it to my very "thorough" sniff test because I don't have any thermal compound lighing around. It is on the 775 platform and the sticker says it is a pentium dual core. The mobo says it only supports dual core cpus, so I wanted to also ask if there are any super cheap cpus on ebay that I could pick up for like a few euro. (I live in Italy) The gpu doesn't look too bad, it's an Asus model, and looks pretty decent with a massive heat sink on it, so I won't change that. I can't run any system checks until tomorrow, but any advice now would be nice. Thank you everyone.
This pc is not for me and is not for gaming, I am personally building a proper rig soon, this is for my brother and he is basically broke, so a cheap pc for school work would be great.
1) I just now got a pc off of a friend. It's old but stopped working recently. He sent it to a tech repair guy, and he said the problem was the HDD. I agree, my other pc, when checking the disk, said there had been an unrecovareble error with the drive. It had been reformated. I therefor conclude that this as well as the clicking and grinding noises it started making after a minute meant it was busted.
2) I just turned on the pc, and the moment I do, I smell something wierd, like burning sort of thing. I therefore turned off the power straight away.
I then took each part out, checked if anything melted and smelt it. Nothing.
3) I tried again, same thing.
4) I took the psu out, smelt it and it smelt of burnt stuff. Badly.
5) I then proceded to remove it, and dump it in my garage until my next trip to the skip.
I am getting an old psu from my school that I know works tomorrow, but I wanted to ask here if there was any chance of the cpu being damaged. I didn't subject it to my very "thorough" sniff test because I don't have any thermal compound lighing around. It is on the 775 platform and the sticker says it is a pentium dual core. The mobo says it only supports dual core cpus, so I wanted to also ask if there are any super cheap cpus on ebay that I could pick up for like a few euro. (I live in Italy) The gpu doesn't look too bad, it's an Asus model, and looks pretty decent with a massive heat sink on it, so I won't change that. I can't run any system checks until tomorrow, but any advice now would be nice. Thank you everyone.
This pc is not for me and is not for gaming, I am personally building a proper rig soon, this is for my brother and he is basically broke, so a cheap pc for school work would be great.
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