Wow,
>
>I was playing Battlefield 2 full version, when I suddenly smelled this
>really bad burn smell.
>
>Maybe the smell came from outside... but I decided to check my computer...
>and too my shock both harddisk fans were stopped ?!
>
burning smells do not come from stalled PC fans. Too little power, even when stalled.
( I left my computer on the whole night to download stuff with bitcomet )
>
>What could have caused the papst fans to stop spinning ? They both on 5
>volts...
>
if BOTH fans stopped spinning, the power supply failed, got shorted, there is a flaky power-connection or there is insufficient startup voltage (e.g: 12v fans running on 5V is a no-no)....... Electronic Hardware 101. Highly unlikely to be either a fan failure or excess dust-buildup unless lint was physically jamming fan rotation... usually a problem only with the turbine-style fans on high-end video cards.
John Lewis