Alram,May 22 2005, 01:44 PM Wrote:There is a funny smell--not exactly a burned smell, but unpleasant kind of burned but not burned.
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I am no computer expert. Could the burned smell be your power supply getting warm for the first time?
Triple check your power connections and the mounting of your CPU heat sink. Can you boot off of any device? Try a bootable CD or floppy in a different drive, if you can get one.
Also, make sure the SLI daughter card on your mobo is in the position for one video card.
edit: Oh, another tidbit I saw in a magazine once. Check your mobo and computer case manuals for the pinouts for your switches and USB/firewire ports on the case. They don't always match.
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