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Hello all,
Had my ds3 and e6300 combo for a couple of days now.
This morning I was busy browsing the web and listening to music through winamp when the system froze - odd considering it wasn't in a load condition.
Through the speakers an electronic noise, sorry I can't describe it any better than that, was audible, sounding like it was on a loop. My monitor then switched itself off and reported "no signal".
I restarted the PC but the monitor would not wake up. THe HDD span up by the sound of it, the CPU fan, the CD drives etc but still no output to the monitor at all. A smell of burning then started to drift upwards from the PC and, fearing my gfx card had caught fire or something I cut power and opened the case.
Nothing was visibly smoking but the smell was moderately strong, so I started an elimination process, using some spare parts I have here.
The GFX card works fine (I'm using it now) and the same goes for the PSU (it's powering this PC now, my old 4000+) - so the question is, any ideas?
My first suspect is the mobo?
Cheers for any help!
Had my ds3 and e6300 combo for a couple of days now.
This morning I was busy browsing the web and listening to music through winamp when the system froze - odd considering it wasn't in a load condition.
Through the speakers an electronic noise, sorry I can't describe it any better than that, was audible, sounding like it was on a loop. My monitor then switched itself off and reported "no signal".
I restarted the PC but the monitor would not wake up. THe HDD span up by the sound of it, the CPU fan, the CD drives etc but still no output to the monitor at all. A smell of burning then started to drift upwards from the PC and, fearing my gfx card had caught fire or something I cut power and opened the case.
Nothing was visibly smoking but the smell was moderately strong, so I started an elimination process, using some spare parts I have here.
The GFX card works fine (I'm using it now) and the same goes for the PSU (it's powering this PC now, my old 4000+) - so the question is, any ideas?
My first suspect is the mobo?
Cheers for any help!
