pc issue.. should I be worried?

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14 years ago

Thu, Dec 10, 2009 11:44 PM

I had a similar thing happen about 4-5 yrs again, with a P4 system I had. I brushed my arm against the case one day, and felt a tingle.

Which, I knew didnt sound right. What happened in my case, was not only was the power earthing the case, it was also frying the CPU (the system kept crashing), and it was screwing up the videocard. If I turned it off and disconnected the video cable, and touched the pins, they were live

I found out what the prob was after. The earth wire had come out of the power point, it was plugged into. Lucky for me, I got onto Intel, who replaced the CPU for free (the fried CPU had to go back to Malaysia to get replaced). I used a lower spec CPU, in the meantime. The replacement took 2 weeks to come back. I had to replace the mobo tho. After that, it was all good

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14 years ago

Fri, Dec 11, 2009 5:41 AM

On Dec 10, 3:18=A0am, "Rheilly Phoull" wrote: not be an expensive fix. >

Then he'd REALLY see some glowin red stuff.

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posted
14 years ago

Fri, Dec 11, 2009 6:13 AM

the component the OP has circled in the photo is labeled as a capacitor.

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14 years ago

Fri, Dec 11, 2009 2:44 PM

Gus wrote in news:33b62e5e-b2e5-408c-92b6- snipped-for-privacy@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com:

My bad. I should have looked at the pictures. Strange that the chip doesn't unsolder itself from the board if it gets that hot!

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14 years ago

Fri, Dec 11, 2009 4:34 PM

Hi!

Very well then. I'll stand aside in light of your experience here.

However, in the hope of not making things worse, I'd be very hesitant to suggest that someone just pull components out of a circuit and hope it still works properly...

William

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14 years ago

Sat, Dec 12, 2009 12:15 PM

well since the discussion here has gone on since I last commented, I'd just like to add that the system is running perfectly fine. haven't had a single problem with it. checked the temperatures and such too, everything seems rather normal. also, as I stated before, it was confirmed that it was not 'red hot' but simply arching inside the component, so it was lighting up, but not getting 'hot' persay. which is why it did not unsolder itself, or blacken the area around it. I haven't turned the thing off in days, and as I said, no problems. cheers!