Re: Computer + Smoke = Bad
Ok, thanks guys. I'm hoping it's the power supply as that would make things so much easier.
After the crash, I opened it up and aside from some dust everything seemed fine. The fans over the cpu, bios chips, and case spun clean. I'm hesitant to take the heatsink off the processor to look at it because I don't want to worry about having to reapply thermal paste to the cpu (if it's still good).
I'll start by looking into getting a new power supply (and a better surge protector). If that doesn't fix things, I guess the heatsink is coming off.
Thanks for the replies.
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