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by Rude Bear Ready for Winter on October 29th, 2007
Your waffles are ready!
by Auntie Em on January 31st, 2008
Your pop tarts are burning!
by Ec-nal Licensed Bootie Inspector on April 22nd, 2008
Could be a tad hot yo...
Did your fan crap out?
by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on October 29th, 2007
Not good. Something's fried.
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 29th, 2007
It's blowing up?!
by Ec-nal Licensed Bootie Inspector on January 1st, 2009
Little bugger's on fire I would suspect yo...
by anand on August 17th, 2008
Ur computer is smoking it's a bad habbit...!!
by Nada Normal on April 22nd, 2008
magic blue smoke is never a good thing
by G_tech on April 22nd, 2008
"Something Bad Has Happened"
I think we've all seen this error! I believe it applys really well here.
Just for S & G 's is the inside of your case dusty and is there lint and dust build up on the CPU fan & power supply vents and fan?
how much air is able to get though vents in fronts of case?
if any of this is there, all could have lead to overheating of CPU, and now it most be replaced and check power supply to see if it is working right at same time. Hope no other damages done.
by Anonymous on April 22nd, 2008
It's called fire.
by Gregorian on January 31st, 2008
is it one of those room sized things with vacuum tubes and stuph?
by Zamorhertho on January 7th, 2008
It just burns.Over heating. You need to replace it and it is a good idea to use a new fan when you replace a CPU (even if the old fan works with your new CPU
by Anonymous on December 28th, 2007
that is because your CPU has overheated. put your computer somewhere where it is cold and breezy, if you cant find anyplace, switch on a fan. let it run for a while. afterwards take the cpu out and get it checked to see if it still can be used, if not buy a new. never use a cpu which has been overheated. y? bcoz it means its been burnt. and nearly was close to being fried into pieces.
by Costantinus on November 30th, 2007
the CPU is obviously frying, perhaps due to a non functioning fan.
by Anonymous on October 29th, 2007
R.I.P
beloved
CPU
we shared some good times.
by XmissXbeeX on October 29th, 2007
run... run... it gonna explooooooooooode
no - sorry i have no idea
thankyou for the opportunity to be silly though
hope you find the answer!!!
by nevets - badgicide on October 29th, 2007
Its suffering a painful death, perhaps its time to get a new CPU.
by Volt on October 29th, 2007
It's obviously overheated, did you block the air flow into the internal part of the computer? Perhaps you need to go into BIOS. Did your computer start bleeping before it started smoking?
by FairLady on November 5th, 2009
The fans in CPU probably stopped working and don't cool down a unit any more.
by joe banana on November 5th, 2009
Did it go poof before or after the smoke?
by Theophilous on November 5th, 2009
You have heard of the expression, “It’s all smoke and mirrors”? Well in the case of electronic devices, it is literally true. All electronic devices work on contained smoke. By careful use of smoke within the chip light beams can be either blocked or allowed to pass carrying information. The smoke is generated by a small Cesium Oxide Wrangle – Carbon Hydrogen Ionic Positioner (COW-CHIP) kept in the L2 cashe on the CPU. If the cow-chip fails this may cause a cascading failure to the Dual Inline Parallel Serial Handoff Terminal. When this goes into failure it can generate enough excess heat to actually melt a small hole in the plastic casing and allow the smoke to escape. Without the smoke, no blocking of the light beams in the chip can occur and all mirrors assume a positive state.
In short if the cow-chip goes dip-sht, the smoke goes out and it stops working. Any electronic device that has smoke coming out of it stops working.
I hope that explains it.
by joe banana on November 4th, 2009
Does this happen all the time or just after sex.
by guyincognito47 on August 18th, 2008
Your computer is spontaneously combusting. I suggest putting as much distance as possible between you and it and calling the fire dept.
by Mr DominQuez Is Gone From AB on August 18th, 2008
It's gonna blow... GET THE HE11 OUT OF THERE!!!!!!!!!!!
by FootLoose on August 26th, 2008
If you have smoke coming from your CPU dude, your first step should be unpluging everything and putting the damn things outside, clear of all buildings or structures
by Paul Rozhkov on August 26th, 2008
It's getting cancer and going to die soon.
Get a replacement CPU
by Anonymous on June 19th, 2008
It's called a fire!!
by nitefire on June 18th, 2008
buddy ur SMPS got bursted so buy a new one
by Turkey on June 3rd, 2008
um .....grab the halon
by I NEED PIE! on June 3rd, 2008
If it is a VIA C3 this is completely normal, it is not smoke but steam coming off the sweaty backs of the overworked hamsters inside the core
ANIMAL RIGHTS, CAMPAIGN FOR RELEASE OF IMPRISONED CPU HAMSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by netsolver27 on June 17th, 2008
Ur issue could be solved if u r a tad bit clear. Is ur pc a old one with a p1 or p2..then this could be the prob..best would be to vaccum it.
by anoble1 on September 5th, 2008
It's time for a new processor. If there is smoke then it must be an Intel chip. They tend to get really hot.
by Anonymous on September 5th, 2008
What's happening if smoke was coming out of your TV?
What's happening if smoke was coming out of your oven?
What's happening if smoke was coming out of your stereo?
What's happening if smoke was coming out of your anything electrical?
It's called a fire.
If your that dumb!
by pauly on August 13th, 2009
Actually, it all depends on what color the smoke is.
In my experience, if the smoke is whiteish-gray, and it is followed by 2 fast beeps, than that usually is an indicator that a internet bug, or worm, has infested the CPU heatsink, and is cooking all the juices inside it, which in turn flow down upon the motherboard, and the RAM, which burn these juices, the smoke from the burning is then drawn up by the case fan, and exhusted out the back where you, the user see this smoke.
Glad I could help.
by Route 66Truckerman on August 13th, 2009
If it's white smoke; a new Pope has been elected!
Or maybe you just received one of my smoke signal emails!
by Flasoft on August 24th, 2009
its over heating. switch it off befor it burns up and messes your mother board, get a new CPU fan. to improve cooling.
by Style4wifi on January 1st, 2009
You computer may have collected dust, animal hair and dirt which has sat in your hard drive for a while stopping air from cirualting round the computer. Your computer is facing bad conditions thus the CPU rising and with no air getting round and heat it begins to smoke
by Not perfect on December 27th, 2008
I think your motherboard was burnt. Your motherboard was out of order. You need a shovel to dig the ground for your motherboard. Rest in peace! Learn the lesson from mistake. It happened to me, too. I have to be careful with my best friend motherboard.
by Henderson on November 5th, 2008
Don't worry your screen will go blank in no time. It's time you to purchase a new one.
by zoso1166 on November 21st, 2008
Maybe you have one of them "wood burning" computers....
by Bramblepath on December 24th, 2008
It's fried. You haven't been overclocking have you?
Just try and boost the fan speed, or get a new computer.
by wildtyke on June 3rd, 2008
Probably the PSU has fried... about £30 for a replacement. Gotta laugh at some of the answers though LOL
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I was thinking toast but we are on the same page :)
by Auntie Em on January 31st, 2008
Perhaps its burning!
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