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Burning Plastic smell....

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SerialThriller

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well...as you might have guessed..there is a smell of burning plastic coming from the inside of my comp. I have smelled it before when i accidently ruined a couple of cd drives by having the 12v going in the 5v...no laughing...i know better now. Anyways, the smell isn't the drives...and recently my computer has been going into a sort of hibernation mode where the screen goes black and i can't turn it off except for when i use the PSU power switch. My mobo is kinda screwy...theres a little problem with the PCI bus...but i was wondering if anyone might have another suggestion about the smell and the hibernation thingy?

PS btw, i have no hibernation settings on in Windows.
 
It's hard to say, anything that uses electricity and has plastic in it could be doing it. And in a computer that desribes just about everything.

I had a transformer from a UV light that burned up and smelled horrible. And damn was I glad that was what caused the smell, and not my OC'd video card. :eek:

You should be able to find the source. Just open the case and sniff everywhere. ;)
 
I'm gonna say PSU. Occasionaly if it overheats some parts in it can melt(burnt plastic smell) but it will still continue to operate to a degree.
 
relatively new PSU...and sniffing around isn't helping, kinda smells near the HDD more than anywhere else.
 
Capacitor busted? Motherboard got any metal-case contact that it shouldn't have? Try running it out of the case and see if it still smells.
 
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