On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:05:21 +0530, AbeAbe
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>Hey, this is probably a kind of unusual question, but bear with me.
>
>I have a 6ish year-old Athlon Thunderbird desktop which seems to be in
>the process of dying(?).
Then why are you running it like that? It certainly won't
heal itself if you leave it on.
>
>Any ideas what this smell might be?
A) Your neighbor laying asphalt
B) The cat farted
C) An overheating computer
D) Smoke pouring out of your ears while you think on
whether it'd be a good idea to turn off and leave off an
electrical device making funny noises and smells.
>And my main concern: is it
>potentially toxic fumes that I shouldn't be breathing?
If you can get the system a little hotter, it might produce
enough smoke that you can get a good sample in the air and
send it off to a lab. Hold your breathe until the results
come back.
>I.e., could it
>be burning/melting solder with lead in the fumes, etc.?
>
Maybe if you dumped some kind of accelerant into the system
to get it a wee bit hotter. Otherwise, no. That doesn't
rule out the possiblity of smoke from a PC being harmful in
great enough quantity, but there is a pretty easy solution
that I've more than hinted at already...
Your main problem is you aren't turning off the system and
leaving it off. Next, decide to throw it away, fix it, or
give it to someone else to fix.
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