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michael555

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can someone help me with this.
a freind has a athlon xp 1.4 with windows xp.

he said the pc will turn on at all.

there was smoke coming from the fan smell like burning.

Do people think the fan has burn out or a heatsink prob.
 
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was the smoke coming from the heatsink fan ?

check the connections and that the heatsink is seated properly
 
smoke coming from any area of the PC is BAD.
Where exactly was the somke coming from...the fan, CPU, motherboard, other component?
 
Cache-man said:
smoke coming from any area of the PC is BAD.
Where exactly was the somke coming from...the fan, CPU, motherboard, other component?
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I think the fan but i am not sure since it was'nt my pc.

If it was the fan or the heatsink can this be fix. But i am not sure if this has damage the motherboard aswell.

The pc will not come on at all.
 
Chances are that if it won't even start, then one of the mobo components was seriously damaged
 
If it was just a fan that burnt out, the PC should still start (unless the CPU burnt out as a side effect!).

Was the fan in question the one sitting on the processor?
 
My bros computer started smoking from the bottom right of the motherboard?

my mom was on my bros computer and it started smoking from the bottom right of the motherboard it had a lot of dust in it any ideas of what happened to it
 
RaGe_2005 said:
my mom was on my bros computer and it started smoking from the bottom right of the motherboard it had a lot of dust in it any ideas of what happened to it
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It's smoke ... buy a new one.
 
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