I would put the computer apart if I were you. the smell sounds bad to
me, you
should look carefully to see if any smoke spot / black spot.

J Qian

Eric Wertman wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I recently put together a new machine, and right after I started it up it
> fried an older hard drive that I was planning to use until I could get a
> newer one. I noticed a burning smell then, and assumed it was the drive,
> but after I had replaced the drive the smell persisted. After a week I
> don't smell it anymore, but it did have a smell for some time, like burning
> plastic. Should I be concerned about this? So far I have had no other
> problems with the system,  in fact it works remarkably well, and was
> trouble free to set up.

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