[SOLVED] Hazardous PCs

[Zarko_Gjurov]

Hello there,

Please help me, mine and the health of my family are on stake here.


The situation/scenario was as follows:

I bought a new (used) PC with following specs:

• CASE: CoolerMaster with 120mm case fan
• PSU: COOLERMASTER LITE 500W
• CPU: Intel i-7 4770K (not overclocked)
• Motherboard: Asus Z87
• RAM: Kingston 16GB DDR3
• GPU: Gygabyte GTX 1060 (brend new from store)

After powering ON the PC (placed on wooden parquet), instantly or for after 2-3 minutes (while PC boots up) we have started to feel: tingling and numbness in our legs.
After 1 hour of using the PC we have felt swelling and we turned off the PC. And when the PC was turned off everything around it was just fine, but when we have turned it ON again, the problem instantly has return.

As much as someone stays next to the PC's CASE feels worse and worse.

After 4 days (while we have turned it ON multiple times for a short period of 30 mins for format and installing Windows over again with original drivers for all parts we decided to bring back the old PC with the following specs:

• CASE: Matrix with 120mm case fan
• PSU: GEMBIRD 650W
• CPU: Intel i-5 4690K (not overclocked)
• Motherboard: Asus H81M-R (HW Monitor's SYSTIN reports: 104 c; and Speccy's MB reports same.)
• RAM: Kingston 8GB DDR3

But the problem stays, honestly with 50% less hazardous but anyway still persist.

After that, we have made blood tests and everything was fine, except 3 values that as it says on Internet two of them can be changed by some kind of radiation, and other one - the rheuma factor was very high!

We have turned off the PCs and move them out from our living space.
After 2 weeks we have repeated the blood tests and the specific values were OK.

After 2 months we have run the old PC again, and the problem is still here.

Then we called an electrical engineer to check up the electricity in our home, and he said that everything is OK and all other home appliances are 100% OK. He sit next to the PC and he felt the same effect for less then 10 minutes, after that he checked up for electricity on the PC's CASE itself but there again was everything normal. He said to us that in the power installation of the house we have nulling, but we don't have grounding, and that is not problem because nulling replacing the grounding, and at the end multiple PCs more then 10 till now under same circumstances have worked successfully trough the last 18 years. And finally he didn't have answer for our situation.

I've tried PC without any peripherals keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers and etc... even without internal parts as GPU and HDD, the problem is still here.

After that we moved our old PC to other building that have nulling and grounding but the same tingling and numbness in the legs was felt by anyone in the room.

Please give me some idea if you have for solution, and please explain what are meanings of HW Monitor motherboard temperatures sensors, because I am seeing very hot temperatures on my motherboard and I am not able to find what they mean.

PC -> Motherboard -> Temperatures

1. What is measured by sensors that you've labeled as:
TZ00
TZ01
SYSTIN
CPUTIN
TMPIN5
TMPIN6
TMPIN8
TMPIN3

2. Why always SYSTIN and TMPIN6 show same temp at 104 c?

 

[rgd1101]

replace the psu. get a good quality one

 

[Gam3r01]

Certainly sounds like a PSU issue, especially because PCs cant emit radiation in the form that would cause health issues.
Nor can you directly feel the effects of "radiation", or that quickly.

 

[COLGeek]

The symptoms described are in no way caused by your new PC. That is simply not possible. Whatever you are experiencing is coincidental with getting the new computer.

There is something else causing this, for sure.

 

[Zarko_Gjurov]

Thank you all for the quick responses.

I will surely replace my PSU, what you think is this model good and quality enough:

V650 Compact Fully Modular 80 PLUS Gold Power Supply - Cooler Master
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/power-supplies/v-series/v650/#Specifications

and one more question,
Should I replace my motherboard too, because HWMointor and Speccy reports 104 c temperature?

 

[helper800]

Thank you all for the quick responses.

I will surely replace my PSU, what you think is this model good and quality enough:

V650 Compact Fully Modular 80 PLUS Gold Power Supply - Cooler Master
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/power-supplies/v-series/v650/#Specifications

and one more question,
Should I replace my motherboard too, because HWMointor and Speccy reports 104 c temperature?

I don't know what's going on with the motherboard but try to get a Seasonic or Corsair (Not CX version) PSU. You are likely experiencing a strong magnetic field, some people are sensitive to this. I would be suspicious of the electrical wiring that is being used to power the computer rather than the computer itself, but I still agree that a PSU replacement is required.

 

[COLGeek]

Thank you all for the quick responses.

I will surely replace my PSU, what you think is this model good and quality enough:

V650 Compact Fully Modular 80 PLUS Gold Power Supply - Cooler Master
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/power-supplies/v-series/v650/#Specifications

and one more question,
Should I replace my motherboard too, because HWMointor and Speccy reports 104 c temperature?

Not the best, nor the worst PSU. Should be okay.

 

[mdd1963]

Numbness just sitting in proximity to an operating PC?

Wow, I've never heard of such a thing...

Try directly grounding the case?

Is PSU grounded? (Normally it would be thru outlet, but, only if all is correct with outlet and wiring..
(Floating ground or not, no one not touching anything conductive in contact with the PC should feel anything, short of your PSU and/or mainboard thru some sort of odd malfunction converting in conjunction to a microwave oven, perhaps...)

Replace the PSU...then retest. (As the problem follows the PC around, certainly the mainboard or PSU /case mounting combined are somehow contributors, and short of an expensive RF SPectrum analyzer to test for presence of strong microwaves, substitution of parts (when available) should find the miscreant culprit.

Test the PSU and mainboard running outside of the case....(eliminating case's possible , however unlikely, contribution to this scenario...)