Are you sure the smell was from the PC and not the monitor? You tried
several vid cards, but maybe the monitor is bad?
Maybe one of the mobo transisters or resisters finally burned out.
I dunno, but 10 years is a lot longer than the normal life expectancy of
a motherboard. I would just build myself a nice new PC. You'll prob
need a lot of new hardware since your old ram, cpu, and vid cards likely
aren't going to work with a new motherboard. Plus, a 10 year old power
supply likely won't power a new mobo and vid card. You can keep the hard
drive and optical drives if you get a mobo that still supports IDE
devices (which I'm assuming your devices are).
Good luck,
Donk
On 4/10/2012 12:50 AM, lcms0...@comcast.net wrote:
> About two weeks ago, I suddenly smelled a bad smell coming from my computer(I
> am posting this from another computer). I looked the possibilities up since I
> suddenly was getting no video. The message on the monitor when the data cable
> was not connected to the video card, was that there was no signal. So when
> the message disappeared after reconnecting the cable, this said to me that
> the original video card was still good. Well, I tried two other working video
> cards and they have the same problem. So I looked in my A+ training book. Is
> it possible, that after ten years with the same motherboard, the BIOS just
> smoked when I suddenly smelled a smell burnt flesh?
>
>
> Chris
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