WolfwoodIsGo
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Well, I just can't seem to find out what is wrong here, and I was hoping to get some help.
The scenario: I am building a computer. I just finally recieved the cpu fan, among other things, but the fan is the important part. I installed the fan, and put the temperature monitor in the crack between the fan and cpu, and then turned it on. It turned on, but the temperature monitor was flickering, like the power wasn't consistent or something. There was a burning smell after I turned it off, after about 10 seconds of being on. Then I tried to turn it on again, and it wouldn't turn on. Since then, I can get it to stay on for a half second, then shut off automatically, once every five minutes or so.
Here's the weird part. I don't think I could have burnt out the power supply, because despite the burning smell, there is a constant green LED on the motherboard.
And also, I have an LCD screen that goes in a 5 1/4" bay, that is powered off of a USB port (pretty cool little unit), and it works fine when the power to the computer is off, (I guess you still get your 5V when the power is off through a USB port), but once you turn it on, like the temperature display, it starts flickering. What's up with this? I don't see how it could be the CPU or the RAM or anything, because if it was that, I would think it would at least turn ON. I don't know what to do, and I've already spent so much money on this, and I really don't want to have to buy a new motherboard or something like that. Please help me! Thank you!
The scenario: I am building a computer. I just finally recieved the cpu fan, among other things, but the fan is the important part. I installed the fan, and put the temperature monitor in the crack between the fan and cpu, and then turned it on. It turned on, but the temperature monitor was flickering, like the power wasn't consistent or something. There was a burning smell after I turned it off, after about 10 seconds of being on. Then I tried to turn it on again, and it wouldn't turn on. Since then, I can get it to stay on for a half second, then shut off automatically, once every five minutes or so.
Here's the weird part. I don't think I could have burnt out the power supply, because despite the burning smell, there is a constant green LED on the motherboard.
And also, I have an LCD screen that goes in a 5 1/4" bay, that is powered off of a USB port (pretty cool little unit), and it works fine when the power to the computer is off, (I guess you still get your 5V when the power is off through a USB port), but once you turn it on, like the temperature display, it starts flickering. What's up with this? I don't see how it could be the CPU or the RAM or anything, because if it was that, I would think it would at least turn ON. I don't know what to do, and I've already spent so much money on this, and I really don't want to have to buy a new motherboard or something like that. Please help me! Thank you!