Got a computer with a fried power supply. So I thought it's from a power surge. But as I did backup on a different computer with that HDD (I replaced it, because it was already very weak) same smell came out of that power supply (hope it didn't affect it too much, it's a good expensive Enermax)...
Maybe it's the cable. There are two kind of cables:
a standard ethernet cable when you use a hub, switch or router and
a crossover cable when you connect two computers directly.
That's what MS says to that case:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812581
Did you install XP on top of another windows? If nothing else helps, i would install XP again (format and install!!! - not only install on top of the old one)
Try to disconnect everything except video card. So only motherboard, processor, ram (only one, then change the other one), video card and keyboard. When that doesn't work it could be the motherboard.
The FSB jumper is in the right position? Paste is on the heatsink? Heatsink "sit" properly on the processor? Processor fan is "strong" enough?
Hi ski,
thank you for your reply. It was the sound card itself. I was already prepared for a new Windows installation. But before that I tried another sound card and it works fine now. So the power surge demaged memory and sound card and hopefully not more will pop up later.
Best regards
hw45
Hi
It's an Asus A7A266 motherboard and there are real strange symptoms (could it be from a power surge?). First of all I got the computer with a damaged nic driver in device manager, which after Ali-driver-update worked again. I thought already that was it. I was wrong! Suddenly blue screens...
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