Are computers powered by smoke?
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Yea. This happened to me before.\n\nYou blew a hole in your hard drive. You gotta take the hard drive out, locate what looks like a hole (You can pour soapy water on it like you do on a tire and then see where it bubbles, or where the remaining smoke is leaking out, to find the hole.). Use rubber cement to seal up the hole, first of all, and then reinstall the hard drive. \n\nAlso, check the fan to see if it has enough lubricant, because the problem might simply be overheating. If you see no lubricant, make sure you spray the inside of your comp with WD 40.\n\nMake sure that there are no Cds or floppys in your computer. And make sure that everything is unplugged, including the keyboard, mouse, and speakers; all external hardware. In fact, you may want to go to your power box and shut down the electricity to that entire segment of your house.\n\nNow, try wrapping a bag around the exhaust of your car to get smoke inside it. Make sure you tie the bag well with electrical tape, and then hook up a USB cable to the tiniest hole where the smoke might be able to leak out.\n\nWhen you connect the cable, the smoke will slowly filter back into the hard drive. Leave your comp like this for about 2 hours, and then try turning it on again. You should get a message that sayd, "Smoke refilled. Thank You!"\nClick "OKAY, " and you should be good to go.\n\nIf you have any other questions, call Geek Squad, but this SHOULD work.
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This may seem a bit obvious, but have you cleaned out all the dust and dirt inside of the power-supply? Or, have you ever done this...Although the outside will look clean, the inside looks like the inside of a vacuum cleaner...Use compressed air to clean out all the dust and dirt. (off the fans, memory, etc) This will help the computer get rid of heat much more efficiently...Because all the dust and dirt acts like a blanket and holds in all the heat...When the computer reaches critical temps then it will shutdown to save it from burning up...
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The only way to know for sure is to test it on another motherboard. Short of a lightening strike or big power surge or short in the motherboard that would have caused smoke to come out... I just don't think all of it could fail. Was the processor actually tested, or was it just a guess?
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Wow, your computer still works?  I am impressed...\n\nMagnets will usually distort the monitor, disrupt what being read and written on the hard drive, disaable the mouse or pointing devices and much much more.
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The quick answer is yes, it can.  Any dust can damage computers.  Most schools have moved toward removing chalk boards and replacing them with white boards for that very reason, and also to protect people from the effects of the dust.
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Smoke is mostly buoyant carbonaceous material resulting from a combustion reaction. Smoke is matter, just as is the air that is buoying it up. All matter consists of "electric particles" in the atoms, but I am not sure exactly what you are asking. You would have to be more specific.
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Yes.  There are bootable linux CDs, the most well known being smoothwall, that can be used to turn a PC into a firewall.\n\nhttp://www.smoothwall.org/
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Run Hijackthis. It will create a log of all the running processes. Post the log on www.hijackthis.de and it will analyze all the processes for you or will find out names at the worst. Google for the processes that seem suspicious.\n\nIf it makes noise, I would rather suspect a hardware. Have you tried removing optical drives or battery? Download SiSoft Sandra 2003 lite and run a stability test. That's a rocking application when it comes to finding loopholes in your system,\n\nSandra will also give you an environment test, to test the CPU and board temperatures. See if they aren't beyond usual.
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Unless you have a surge protector and a backup system, it isn't recommended to leave your computer on. If lightning strikes, it can fry out the electronics in your computer.
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No, none of the equipment in a PC emits any radiation. Some people believe that the electromagnetic fields around ANY electric device can cause some health issues, but no scientific proof exists and personally I believe its bogus. You may not be sleeping well due to the noise and lack of sleep can have some strange effects on your body.
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Vehicle engine smoke.  Why?
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electricity those computers that run every thing wouldnt work without it
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because the computer uses a little battery on your motherboard instead of the powersupply
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well on most computer the HD has its own display light. If it is messed up you can usually hear it clicking wierd or feel it and see if it is spinning. Something can often fry in a comp without any external evidence and the most likely thing to go is teh power supply. BTW dont buy another emachine. they are dangerous. My friend's caught on fire one day. it sucked anyways.
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It might be bacause the graphics are not compatible and the computer is forced to use the little supply thus causeing the low power state
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First lets do a CTRL +ALT +DEL (CAD), see what processes are running.\n1. Chances are that there some programs which are running and which you do not need. (Startup programs should be as less, these programs start when computer starts), it can be messengers, and other softwares like desktop , webshots,etc)\n2. I hope you use proper fireall for surfing . In case you run on 50% only when u r on internet, it may be because of spyware attack on computer in lack of firewall.\nI hope I am clear you can ask me in case you want to know more.
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its a way for your computer to save energy while its not in use.