What could be the reason. My system freezes. Burning smell comes ?

Question

Well, mine has been a quite a different story
I have an intel pentium 4, 2.8 ghz
i work on 80gb hdd

i used to have a 512mb DDR RAM, till then my system worked fine
later i bought another 512mb RAM

It worked fine for a week or something.
a few days back, when working my system suddenly hung up
It completely Froze. Mouse was'nt workin.
Mp3 song stopped
Num lock not turnin off

after a while my monitor blurred and there was a faint burning smell from my CPU
so i switched the power supply off!

later after re-booting it worked fine
and the next day it again happend with the same symptoms

so i thought the new RAM was the culprit, so i removed it
system then worked fine for a day or two

and then it again happend
and now it keeps happening almost all the time

it usually happens when i use large applications like Counter-strike, NFS, Adobe Flash
now it even freezes when i open too many tabs in firefox.

when i was trying to trace where the burning smell came from i observed that it was from the SMPS(power supply) but it fainted before i could confirm
i have tried re-installin my os, but even after that it wont stop

i have always been trying to find the reason and the cure for this but so far i have'nt succeded.

So please help me
note - my compuer also hung up once while i was typin this.

Answer 1

The power supply has partially failed, a common problem. It's probably a standard ATX supply, unless you have a weird brand or model of PC. For that class of processor, a 300-400W supply should be fine. They are easy to replace (really!) and relatively inexpensive--the one thing to be careful with is the motherboard power connector--it has a latch that must be released to pull it from the MB. When you plug it back in, make SURE that it is seated fully in the socket. I would take the old supply with me to the store to ensure that the connectors and form factor (shape and size) match, but it's an easy fix as such things go and the rest of your PC is probably OK. I've only seen once where the PS took out the PC in 30 years of doing this.



Good luck!



~~ ScienceMikey

Answer 2

Your BRAKES (no longer breaks) are binding for some reason. counting on your motor vehicle (supply more advantageous ideas human beings, heavily!!), if the brake swap is a hydraulic rigidity swap, then the man who replaced it ought to have over-filled the reservoir, or if that's a pedal fixed swap then they'd have moved something out of it is correct position, or no longer adjusted something top. do no longer rigidity IT else you'll burn your brakes up (in case you have not already, going 45mph including your brakes on!!), harm the discs, and probably boil the brake fluid too. Ring up the storage the position you obtain the artwork performed, clarify the priority, and tell THEM to deliver a tow truck to %. it up and fasten the priority, or you have become it performed elsewhere and sending them the bill, alongside with a letter out of your solicitor.

Answer 3

Make sure that ram is the right one. Take it out and see if it works ok without it. Same thing happened to my friends earlier in the year. Worked out the ram had issues with the make of motherboard so that could be a issue with yours.

Answer 4

Do you have a graphics card or is it handled on the motherboard?

(Do you plug your monitor into a slot that is parallel or perpendicular to the USB ports on the back?)



Sounds like your graphics card is over heating, but it is possibly the CPU.

Answer 5

You've gotta roach in your cpu core and its cooking it like yesterdays sausage

Answer 6

you need a new lap top or install linux



your lap top is very old