Very Noxious Fumes out of new computer

8th March 2005, 05:03

I just finished to build my computer.
At power up I noticed some noxious fumes that soon filled the room and was impossible to breath.

Hoping the fumes will go away this is the third day of it and doesn't seem to go away...it is as strong as the first day.

My suspect is the power supply ever since it has capacitors that heat up a lot. But the fumes are totally invisible and can not tell where they are coming from because the entire computer is filled with it.

Have anybody had an exp[erience with this before?...Thanks.

SEMPRON 2800+ socket A
EPOX 8KRAI-X
FORTRON AURORA FSP 350 watts
Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 (heatsink)
120 gigs HD
512 Mb memory.
POWMAX DEVIL II case

jmke · 8th March 2005, 08:17

uhm; this does not sound (smell?) good, most likely an overheating PSU; do you have means to swap it out?

8th March 2005, 05:03	#1
nitrom Posts: n/a	Very Noxious Fumes out of new computer I just finished to build my computer. At power up I noticed some noxious fumes that soon filled the room and was impossible to breath. Hoping the fumes will go away this is the third day of it and doesn't seem to go away...it is as strong as the first day. My suspect is the power supply ever since it has capacitors that heat up a lot. But the fumes are totally invisible and can not tell where they are coming from because the entire computer is filled with it. Have anybody had an exp[erience with this before?...Thanks. SEMPRON 2800+ socket A EPOX 8KRAI-X FORTRON AURORA FSP 350 watts Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 (heatsink) 120 gigs HD 512 Mb memory. POWMAX DEVIL II case

8th March 2005, 08:17	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	uhm; this does not sound (smell?) good, most likely an overheating PSU; do you have means to swap it out? __________________

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