I went to use my pc and log on and something smelt like it was burning. As I went to check it out the pc shut off and whenever I turn it on it shuts off 2 seconds later. Please tell me it was something simple like a power supply and not the mb or cpu!

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try holding down the power button for like 30 secs. it probably won't do anything but it did work for me when my comp turned on for a split second then turn off. then again, i didn't have a burning smell. when i held down the button for 30 or so secs, i can tell my computer was struggling to turn on. i kept doing that and it worked.

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let it cool off for a bit and then try it. My laptop shuts itself off sometimes and i just hold it up so it gets more air to the fan while turning it back on.

The burning smell doesn't sound good though.

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I already tore it apart and the sata chip looks fried and smells fried I just hope that my sata drives didn't fry with it! the cpu fan smells a bit but the processor itself doesn't look or smell bad so it might be ok. but I'm pretty certain the mb is toast. It's funny I held on to my old pc for 2 years and sold it last week, I just knew this would happen. Oh well off to fry's I go.

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Take a look at all the capsitors on the mobo and see if any are raised up on the top, if any are the mobo is done.

Yeah its toast, now I just need to figure out how to recover my data from my raid array. I wish I could figure out a way to do it myself, but I'll probably have to have someone do it and be without my computer for a week. Anybody know how to recovery data from a striped raid array?

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DAMN that sucks
BAD

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YA baby just like that.....

If all the disks are ok, you should be able to just fire them up again in another raid capable system.

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Yeah I have a feeling that one of the drives is a little damaged. I'm going to have to take me pc in and have someone pull the data off both drives and put it together so I can get some of it back. The shitty part of that is that I'll be without a pc for a week or so.

To top it off I'm going to be on my 3rd new motherboard because the first two had something wrong with them. I was using the asus p4p800e deluxe but I'm going to have to use the p4p800se, anyone know the difference between them besides one less raid controller?

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