My Psu died on friday, although it would still operate the fans, it would not power up my motherboard. I'm sending it off under warranty but in the mean time, im using a 550w atx advance 12v, it doesn't really tell me much else as i pulled it out of a computer that hasn't been used in a few years.
I noticed a burning smell once everything was up and running, and the psu was running very hot, unfortunately, my computer did crash before i noticed, i cleaned the PSU out with an aim compressor, and the rest of my case didn't need it as it gets cleaned regularly. The psu no longer runs hot but i still get the burning smell before my computer instantly shuts down when gaming.
The only 2 hot components in my computer are my RAM and the heatsink in the centre of my motherboard. I've tested some other RAM and this runs hot as well, but the heatsink on my motherboard burnt me, i had to touch it because my mobo doesn't have temp sensors ( i don't think)
My RAM, PSU, GPU smell fine and my CPU is water cooled and never goes above 50, even on prime 95, and the gpu never hits 60 degrees. I'm afraid my initial PSU dying may of effected my mobo, or this new power supply is cooking it.
As for computer specs:
E8500 dual core @3.7ghz
OCZ PC2 6400 800mhz gold edition (currently at 936 mhz running stable for a few months)
Geforce GTX560ti
Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P31-ES3G
You may want to move this, wasn't entirely sure where to put it, the subsections in mobo and ram meant nothing to me
I noticed a burning smell once everything was up and running, and the psu was running very hot, unfortunately, my computer did crash before i noticed, i cleaned the PSU out with an aim compressor, and the rest of my case didn't need it as it gets cleaned regularly. The psu no longer runs hot but i still get the burning smell before my computer instantly shuts down when gaming.
The only 2 hot components in my computer are my RAM and the heatsink in the centre of my motherboard. I've tested some other RAM and this runs hot as well, but the heatsink on my motherboard burnt me, i had to touch it because my mobo doesn't have temp sensors ( i don't think)
My RAM, PSU, GPU smell fine and my CPU is water cooled and never goes above 50, even on prime 95, and the gpu never hits 60 degrees. I'm afraid my initial PSU dying may of effected my mobo, or this new power supply is cooking it.
As for computer specs:
E8500 dual core @3.7ghz
OCZ PC2 6400 800mhz gold edition (currently at 936 mhz running stable for a few months)
Geforce GTX560ti
Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P31-ES3G
You may want to move this, wasn't entirely sure where to put it, the subsections in mobo and ram meant nothing to me