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Smoking cpu us

Raj20000

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Jul 26, 2017
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sound coming from my fan and then i stopped it by banging on cpu cab .then i clicked on a game and suddenly the screen video stopped and a white smoke comes out with a smell of gun powder ihave a asus p1h61mlx3 mothernoard with inteli3 2nd gen
 
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With smoke, it's likely coming from the PSU more than anything else - although a blown capacitor could account for the noise.

What is your question here?

To have any chance of the system working , you're going to need to replace components to identify the cause (or post pictures of the internals - if something is obvious, we should be able to spot it in a decent pic). I would expect the PSU, as a minimum to be dead. Potential for the motherboard too though - and that could well fry any/all of the other components, depending on what actually happened.

Although, while it's not likely something that contributed to the issue (at least not this time); never "fix" electronics issues by hitting them, no matter how tempting it...
With smoke, it's likely coming from the PSU more than anything else - although a blown capacitor could account for the noise.

What is your question here?

To have any chance of the system working , you're going to need to replace components to identify the cause (or post pictures of the internals - if something is obvious, we should be able to spot it in a decent pic). I would expect the PSU, as a minimum to be dead. Potential for the motherboard too though - and that could well fry any/all of the other components, depending on what actually happened.

Although, while it's not likely something that contributed to the issue (at least not this time); never "fix" electronics issues by hitting them, no matter how tempting it is.. That's just asking for trouble.
 
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