It’s a mad world
Yo guys.
Yesterday in the beginning of the evening, my PC suddenly shut down while I was playing Civilization V working *cough*. And there was a strong smell of burnt materials.
Shit.
I couldn’t find from where that smell came from, the PSU or the CPU, the video card didn’t smell at all.
Today morning, I bring my PC tower to my local PC shop, and fortunately the guy in the shop tells me “I’ll open it this morning to tell you, but most likely, this is the power unit, and the rest of the hardware is safe. Well, unless there was a short-circuit that blew up the rest of the stuff of course – JUST KIDDING“.
I’m called back in the end of the morning, it was indeed the power unit, the guy replaced it. I come to the shop, he shows me the PC, boots it, I log Windows in, everything works, woot, I pay and come back home.
Then, at home, I plug everything back (keyboard, LAN, etc) to the PC, and I boot it. Bios loading fine, windows starts booting… and then nothing happens. I wait a pair of minutes, and, guess what ?
It’s the familiar burnt smell that’s back !
I look inside the PC tower…
Hooo, how lovely, a beautifully twinkling sparkle, hoo, so pretty !
And then, small, very briefly living flames, cute, one third of a centimeter high.
Hey, wait
–WHAT THE FUCKING HELL MY VIDEO CARD IS BURNING
… and this isn’t when I wake up, sadly, this is simply the current situation. I turned off the power, the shit calmed down, and I’m eager to have a conversation with my PC shop guy when his shop opens again in the afternoon ¬_¬
@HurpDurp : feel free to post stuff on hentairules while I’m forcibly away, man. I love the visitors, spread good stuff on them – that being said in a nonsexual way.
@the visitors : sorry I can’t share stuff today, I have a valid alibi ^_^
really unlucky to have this problem man. go ask the PC technician if the power unit is the cause of it…
dust sound good for your video card (tho any chance of a pic of the damage)
Maybe your house is grounded incorrectly, or there is some other problem with the wiring.
If the PC shop replaced the PSU with a shitty quality one, that would explain your video card bursting into flames.
Have no phear, hurpdurp is here, I guess.
Weird… may be your PSU and replace were "generic" type (very low cost) with no enough (real) capacity and no protection against short circuit nor overcharge. But very very weird about video card… may be a short circuit in PSU burn it (and possibly all the other components). A lightning? Or… a mistake of technician?
Recomendation: a regular/good PSU is a bit expensive but neccesary. Also a good power surge/strip protector at least or UPS.
Hmm, in my backwater country electricity voltage can fluctuate wildly depending on area and known to damaging electronic appliance (PC included). Since (correct me if I wrong) you are on USA (or western hemisphere) that would unlikely. I would check just in case, and like other have pointed out, your PSU maybe on fault too. Well, hope it sorted really soon.
Oliver lives in France.
I keep saying to put a donate button on your website oliver, I'd be more than happy to toss a few dollars your way and I know others would be as well, would help you with the associated costs (video cards spontaneously com-busting) of running this site
either way, I'm not a computer tech wiz so I just hope all your stuff gets fixed
he already have one, check the link o search in the webpage "Ppal donations"
I can’t really think of any plausible way these two incidents were related. The PSU is supposed to fry in case of short circuits or other errors to protect the other hardware, so that’s easy to understand. But if the GPU was damaged, you should know right away, as it’s a very sensitive piece of equipment and will simply cease to work if something’s damaged. Perhaps it was the GPU all along? Like if the GPU had some sort of magic short circuit that fried the original PSU, but also somehow didn’t affect its ability to function? I dunno, doesn’t make any sense to me.
So, I think they were separate events that happened to occur within a small time frame. Unlikely things happen.
1/ What was the PSU exactly ?
Because it need to be good quality, NEVER use a generic/noname/cheap one.
Check the reviews on CanardPC Hardware, the noname PSU always end the security overload benchmark on fire, because they have no protection at all and have undersized components.
They have been sued by Heden for showing that. http://www.x86-secret.com/dossier-34-_Methodologie__Tests_d_alimentations.html http://www.canardpc.com/news-47511-enquete_dgccrf… http://www.canardpc.com/news-49461-verdict___proc…
2/ The UPS, very useful, it will protect hardware and supply clean power, and even if you already have a relatively stable power, it will save your work when the power will cut for whatever reason (and it will ! But you' ll never know when).
There is not much tests of UPS, but the SMT750I is very nice.
Oliver, be careful, from my experience, when the PSU is failed, it can lead to another disastrous event, the first victim (after PSU) most likely be GPU.. and it can be worse
I also have similar experience, first the PSU is burnt, after replacing the PSU with new good one (not generic), the same thing happens again and burnt my GPU. The main culprit is electricity, you should also call electrician checking your electric socket where you plug your PC and checking your house' electricity condition
Sorry to hear about your PC problems. I guess playing too much Civ V does burn you out.
(Apologies for inappropriate pun during a time when your PC died. Hope it didn't affect the HDD as well).
It's possible that your old PSU, although not generic, failed. And because it was a good brand PSU, it just killed itself instead of affecting the others. The new PSU, on the other hand, is probably generic, and lacks certain protections that are usually present in good brand PSUs, hence it took the video card with it.
Time to build a new PC bro. Pray the HDD is ok for backups.
I can picture what happened there =/
Isn’t it the end of summer? And I bet the Pc wasn’t that new? And the temps are frigging hot. Maybe the PSU wasn’t from a well-known brand either.
Mix all those factors and your PC will melt down.
My advice: Buy the best PSU you can afford. Don’t use the Pc on a heated room and turn it off as often as you can, in the summer. It happened to me last summer, my PC kept shutting down and acting weird.
I thought it was a virus but in fact the PC was just overheating like crazy. Didn’t go as far as to catch on a fire, but it was close (the cables blew up once).
Hope you can save most of your PC, though. It’s hard to see your precious machine go out like this
Hey Oliver?
Word of advice, man: BUY YOURSELF A FUCKING BACKUP SYSTEM!
This way if your primary goes tits up, you can easily switch to a second PC.
(Trust me, this happened to me with my PC. Now, I'm stuck to using the laptop until I can get it fixed–which should be in about another year…)
You should have enough money saved up–seeing how I am a major Deposit Files fan and have been downloading like crazy for the past month. (And the month before and the month before that and so on.)
Just a thought, my friend. You should really seriously think about adding a backup PC to your hosting gig and if at all POSSIBLE…? You should think about having a backup for all your files as well–so you don't lose momentum with future posts. ^_^
Anyhew…keep up the good work and hope everything works out.
I WOULD HAVE A VERY SERIOUS TALK WITH THE COMPUTER REPAIRMAN AS TO WHY YOU PAYED HIM TO FIX YOUR COMPUTER THEN YOU TOOK IT HOME AND IT CAUGHT FIRE . IN MY OPIONIN THAT CALLS FOR A FREE REPAIR OR A REFUND AND FINDING A NEW COMPUTER REPAIRMAN
Oliver, how often do you vacuum the inside of your computer?
twice a month.
the "@visitors" line made me thing of this, lol http://imageshack.us/a/img267/7925/33623608622473…
i mean "@hurpdurp"
Spread the jam, uh ?
PORN !
Lets hope it gets fix…..I was reading the comments……..when on said that it could be the dust pilled on the tower…because my pc tower has a lot of dust and i have yet to gave it maintenance xS………so i think, now that i have read this post i better give it some maintenance on the weekend hahahah…………….>.>
I kinda feel like sending you some of my old stuff. You keep getting nickel an dimed for odd parts when you should really just invest in a new machine built with all the correct components at once. At the very least, perhaps I can send you an SSD drive?
I really need to invest in an SSD.
My only problem is I like installing everything in my C:/ drive and SSDs aren't nearly large enough.
I have a 2TB HDD currently in here and I only bought this thing like a year ago. Less than half left.
And I don't even put porn on my C:/.
That goes in the other 3+ 2TB external HDDs I have.
I wish I was lying about this.
You know the thing that litterally saved my SSD ? "Mklink /j"
I have a 256GB SSD for my primary drives….and 8GB RAID5 array for my other stuff (on the Windows Home Server). I find 256 is enough for the OS and enough current games. I buy all my games off of Steam…can just re-download if I decide to visit an old game.
My next build will have a 512GB SSD Raid0 array….speeed + space. They are getting quite cheap. NewEgg just had a WD Velociraptor drive on sale…..decent speed and more storage if you cand buy a larger SSD.
Yeah, I don’t buy games… if you get my drift.