Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
Hello, Check your memory. Pull them out and put them all back in. 1 long and 3 short usually means a memory error. Regards, On February 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com wrote: Got the new power supply in and just as I'd feared it still doesn't work. I get the 1 long beep, 3 short beep error (memory) and the onboard diagnostic gives a 8.7. error (check CPU core voltage). It could be the motherboard but at this point I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and build a new machine. Yay! Time to spec and build a new machine! - Brian On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.orgwrote: I have had similar episodes that turned out to be the video fan happened to me twice... and the CPU fan ... happened to me once. The fans don't die they just slow down and stop pushing enough air. The MB over heats and shuts down the computer and every thing feels and smells hot. Good luck. w At 07:42 AM 2/25/2013, you wrote: Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com timli...@adv-data.com
Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
On Wednesday 27 February 2013 08:10:09 Tim Lider wrote: Hello, Check your memory. Pull them out and put them all back in. 1 long and 3 short usually means a memory error. Regards, The memory power supply capacitors failing can cause memory errors. If doing the above clears the problem fine, but I would be inclined to test the memory by putting it into another machine to check it. Either way run Memtest or similar if you can. -- Best Regards: Gaffer Pontefract Linux User Group.
Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
Got the new power supply in and just as I'd feared it still doesn't work. I get the 1 long beep, 3 short beep error (memory) and the onboard diagnostic gives a 8.7. error (check CPU core voltage). It could be the motherboard but at this point I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and build a new machine. Yay! Time to spec and build a new machine! - Brian On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.orgwrote: I have had similar episodes that turned out to be the video fan happened to me twice... and the CPU fan ... happened to me once. The fans don't die they just slow down and stop pushing enough air. The MB over heats and shuts down the computer and every thing feels and smells hot. Good luck. w At 07:42 AM 2/25/2013, you wrote: Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian
[H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian
Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
If it is as drastic as a bad mainboard, you will want a new power supply for the new mainboard, anyway; given the symptoms described. I'd start there. At worst you have a PS on hand. best al On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:42:45 +0800 Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com wrote: Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian -- Al Anger eight.bit...@gmail.com
Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
Brian, My suggestion is you need a new PSU. I've never read about a PSU failing with excessively 'high' voltages. I suppose this can happen, but I am not aware of this; yet,..:) From your share, it seems that your cpu, m/b, RAM, are now trying very hard to deal with 'bad' voltages as best they can. Get a new (bigger) PSU. I would suggest a 650W + unit to start. If you have several (many) mechanical HD's, I may go 750W. Ireally like Seasonic now (thanks Greg!) JMHO. Duncan On 02/25/2013 10:42, Brian Weeden wrote: Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian
Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
I had a 650W OCZ in there. Only 1 SSD, 1 HDD, and a single video card so my power requirements aren't that steep. --- Brian Weeden Secure World Foundation +1 202 683-8534 On Feb 25, 2013, at 12:28, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Brian, My suggestion is you need a new PSU. I've never read about a PSU failing with excessively 'high' voltages. I suppose this can happen, but I am not aware of this; yet,..:) From your share, it seems that your cpu, m/b, RAM, are now trying very hard to deal with 'bad' voltages as best they can. Get a new (bigger) PSU. I would suggest a 650W + unit to start. If you have several (many) mechanical HD's, I may go 750W. Ireally like Seasonic now (thanks Greg!) JMHO. Duncan On 02/25/2013 10:42, Brian Weeden wrote: Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian
Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
Brian, OK. Well, I suppose 'stuff happens' then. Still, your trouble reads a PSU anywayat least. A new m/b, maybe.. ? Duncan On 02/25/2013 12:38, Brian Weeden wrote: I had a 650W OCZ in there. Only 1 SSD, 1 HDD, and a single video card so my power requirements aren't that steep. --- Brian Weeden Secure World Foundation +1 202 683-8534 On Feb 25, 2013, at 12:28, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Brian, My suggestion is you need a new PSU. I've never read about a PSU failing with excessively 'high' voltages. I suppose this can happen, but I am not aware of this; yet,..:) From your share, it seems that your cpu, m/b, RAM, are now trying very hard to deal with 'bad' voltages as best they can. Get a new (bigger) PSU. I would suggest a 650W + unit to start. If you have several (many) mechanical HD's, I may go 750W. Ireally like Seasonic now (thanks Greg!) JMHO. Duncan On 02/25/2013 10:42, Brian Weeden wrote: Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian
Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell
I have had similar episodes that turned out to be the video fan happened to me twice... and the CPU fan ... happened to me once. The fans don't die they just slow down and stop pushing enough air. The MB over heats and shuts down the computer and every thing feels and smells hot. Good luck. w At 07:42 AM 2/25/2013, you wrote: Was working on a paper this morning and suddenly my desktop computer powered off by itself. This is a Q6600 machine that I built a few years ago and has been in nearly constant use since then with little to no trouble. It's been rock-sold and aside from upgrading the video card a year ago I haven't had to touch it. I waited a few seconds, then hit the power button. It came back on briefly and then shut off again, followed by the smell of overheated electronics. Disconnected the power and opened it up. Nothing was visibly smoking. Took everything apart. Inspected the CPU and it appeared ok. Replaced the thermal compound and re-seated the heatsink. Smell appeared to be coming from the power supply but I can't be positive. Put the bare essentials backtogether (CPU, RAM, video card) and powered it back on. Getting a variety of beep and error codes from the on-board diagnostic unit. At first there was a 1 long, 3 short beep code for the RAM . Reseated and it's gone. POST sequence was hanging on 8.7. (Check CPU Voltage) and now it's hanging on 8.2. (Check Power Supply). I get the sense that perhaps the power supply went bad. However, I really can't afford to be down on this system very long, so if I'm going to order parts I want to do it as soon as possible and not go through a long trouble-shooting process. Thoughts from the collective? Is it likely that if the power supply is indeed the culprit that the damage was contained there? Or should I be worried about the CPU, RAM, mobo, etc? - Brian
