Puff oh smoke

[monkeyspunk]

WOW just playing DOD and my computer shut off next thing I know smoke was coming out the back>is this what they do when they go bad or to low of WATTS was a 300 but not no more (put in the 450 from my other mach for now

 

[StormBringer]

Sounds like your PSU died. Probably caused by something else, possibly power surge, or from excessive load.
They don't usually blow smoke when they just up and die.

 

[Phantasm66]

Your CPU fan could have stopped turning.

 

[vassil3427]

Actually I've had a couple Power Supplies die on me and one of them smoked, it was because one of the large capacitors inside exploded....

 

[poertner_1274]

I agree with Phantasm I think your fan stopped working and it just burned out the capacitor, which caused it to smoke.