HELP!! WEIRD SMELL

[lilbabimac]

this is pissin me off now...this weird smell from my pc has been there since i replaced my processor fan about a month or 2 ago and hasn't gone away. i thought it was just a temporary smell but it got to the point now where my room smells like it. if i turn off my pc it goes away though. my pc is working smoothly so i don't think any hardware is burning....but the smell sure does smell like hardware burning. im stumped....can anyone help me out??

 

[IGBT]

Open the case and look for swollen leaky capacitors. Shut the lights off and look at the mob with night vision goggles...might see something glowing that shouldn't.

 

[Magicthyse]

<<Shut the lights off and look at the mob with night vision goggles...might see something glowing that shouldn't. >>

Bwahahaha! You actually own one of those?

What kind of smell is it? Is it like the smell when you burn the handle of a saucepan? Or is it a more 'softer' smell?

 

[BillClo]

Make sure you don't have any dust building up in your heat sink. I have had this problem since I've upgraded my motherboard and CPU - if I don't blow the dust out of the heat sink fins about every month, it starts to smell funny. I used some of the canned air that they sell to clean out your keyboard, etc, but you might be able to figure out a cheaper way.

Hope that helps ya.