Laptop on fire! (Almost)
Hi.
So I woke up this morning, and proceeded to turn on my laptop. It seemed to boot just fine until it got to the login screen where it just shut down completely. I tried turning it back on, but the machine only gave a small "ticking" sound. The screen and fans turned on for half a sec, and then went dead. The machine also started to smell like burning/melting plastic/hot electronics (kinda hard for me to describe in English). Thinking it was overheating, considering it got all the way to login at first attempt, i screwed of the bottom plate and got out my compressed air. Gave the fans a few blasts, and my room instantly felt like an Egyptian tomb. When I was confident most of the dust was gone, I proceeded to turn the bottom back on. I then discovered that one of the fan contacts wasn't attached, so I attached it. Other than that I couldn't see anything immediately wrong. After putting everything back together, I attached the charger and let it sit for a while to cool off. An hour or so later I attempted to boot it again. This time it gave a series of "ticks", but nothing happened. There was a burning smell, and a tiny sliver of smoke coming from one of the fans. I immediately unplugged it from the power source and put it next to the fire extinguisher. I've been in contact with the manufacturer who agrred to take it in and have a look at it, so I'm not gonna try to fix this myself.
I'm just wondering if any of you have any idea what might cause this? Locked fan (not spinning), short circuit on the mobo, dust stuck somewhere, or a leaky capacitor?
As I've said, it's already going to service, but I'm curious.
So I woke up this morning, and proceeded to turn on my laptop. It seemed to boot just fine until it got to the login screen where it just shut down completely. I tried turning it back on, but the machine only gave a small "ticking" sound. The screen and fans turned on for half a sec, and then went dead. The machine also started to smell like burning/melting plastic/hot electronics (kinda hard for me to describe in English). Thinking it was overheating, considering it got all the way to login at first attempt, i screwed of the bottom plate and got out my compressed air. Gave the fans a few blasts, and my room instantly felt like an Egyptian tomb. When I was confident most of the dust was gone, I proceeded to turn the bottom back on. I then discovered that one of the fan contacts wasn't attached, so I attached it. Other than that I couldn't see anything immediately wrong. After putting everything back together, I attached the charger and let it sit for a while to cool off. An hour or so later I attempted to boot it again. This time it gave a series of "ticks", but nothing happened. There was a burning smell, and a tiny sliver of smoke coming from one of the fans. I immediately unplugged it from the power source and put it next to the fire extinguisher. I've been in contact with the manufacturer who agrred to take it in and have a look at it, so I'm not gonna try to fix this myself.
I'm just wondering if any of you have any idea what might cause this? Locked fan (not spinning), short circuit on the mobo, dust stuck somewhere, or a leaky capacitor?
As I've said, it's already going to service, but I'm curious.
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