What damage can smoke on computer cause?

[alpha_2000]

So i have been having problems with my place i have a roommate who smokes around the entrance to my place i keep telling this person to stop but wont. See my door is not well insulated so smoke comes in.

well this person finally stopped for the longest time but returned to doing it and when i turned on my computer i noticed i am getting bsod's it goes by so fast i cant read it but the system automatically reboots, was this caused by this person smoking? programs that detect bsod's say there were no problems

 

[USAFRet]

So i have been having problems with my place i have a roommate who smokes around the entrance to my place i keep telling this person to stop but wont. See my door is not well insulated so smoke comes in.

well this person finally stopped for the longest time but returned to doing it and when i turned on my computer i noticed i am getting bsod's it goes by so fast i cant read it but the system automatically reboots, was this caused by this person smoking? programs that detect bsod's say there were no problems

Second hand smoke at that level should not cause a BSOD. OK, maybe after a few years, and you never clean it.

 

[mwryder55]

Our office had a number of chain smokers before the laws changed and we never had any problems with the computers. At times the smoke layer was all the way to the floor. Now some of the screens developed a very heavy layer of tar and nicotine but they kept working.

 

[Wolfshadw]

I smoked for years around my computers. Aside from the stickier than normal build up in the heat sink fins, it didn't cause any permanent damage. As for the BSODs, there should be a setting in BIOS that toggles whether the system reboots on error. Switch that to OFF and your system should not reboot on a BSOD; allowing you to see the error message.

-Wolf sends

 

[alpha_2000]

what would the setting that toggles a bsod be called in my bios? Also this may be related but before i get the bsod's i think my disk usage gets to 100% but hdd sentinel says my hard drive is fine

 

[g-unit1111]

what would the setting that toggles a bsod be called in my bios? Also this may be related but before i get the bsod's i think my disk usage gets to 100% but hdd sentinel says my hard drive is fine

Nothing really toggles a BSOD. It's something that either happens or it doesn't. Most of the time it's usually related more to software than it is to hardware.

 

[Wolfshadw]

what would the setting that toggles a bsod be called in my bios? Also this may be related but before i get the bsod's i think my disk usage gets to 100% but hdd sentinel says my hard drive is fine

It's probably called something like Boot On Error or Restart On Error.

-Wolf sends

 

[mwryder55]

what would the setting that toggles a bsod be called in my bios? Also this may be related but before i get the bsod's i think my disk usage gets to 100% but hdd sentinel says my hard drive is fine

It's probably called something like Boot On Error or Restart On Error.

-Wolf sends

The setting I remember seeing in the BIOS is a "Halt on Error" where you can choose what do if there is no keyboard detected, etc. But this only applies while booting the computer and has nothing to do when it crashes later due to a hardware or software problem.