On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:01 PM, cheryl wrote: > You guys will think I'm nuts but here goes. My Quicksilver 2002 has a > smell coming out of it. It doesn't smell like it's burning but it's > definitely not normal. I've cleaned it with canned air and vacuumed it > and I'm using it now. The smell is there but I can't find anything > hot, I don't see any smoke. It's coming straight out of the exhaust > fan. Right now I'm running it with the case open so I can keep an eye > on it. Any ideas as to what it could be? The air intake fan appears > not to be running, but since I run the machine with the case slightly > open that shouldn't be a problem. Any advice would be appreciated! > > Cheryl Harris > Tehachapi, CA If you run them with the case open you over work the fans. look close for some foreign material. Dead mouse? There's a lot of crannies in those cases on the bottom ends is room for a lot of junk.
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