Hot pc wont shutdown

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Lord Anubis

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Lately my pc gets very hot and wont shutdown. The hdd makes like a clicking sound and the red light on the case burns constantly?? To shut it of I have to pull the wall plug! What could be wrong???
 
Get rid of dust
Remove cpu cooler and replace thermal paste
HDD is busy dying if it is clicking so back up info and try a format to see if it helps.

Full pc specs will help more
 
P4 dual core, 160gb hdd, 3.2ghz, 2gb ram, geforce 6800, 400w psu, 2yrs old, vue, isdn int microcom...cpu temp 56, hdd 62, 2 fans 2800 rpm each . Case feels hot and smells like burning plastic? Oh and 19" crt and dvdrom 16x
 
Definetly back up as the hdd is on its way out, then get rid of dust and replace the thermal paste on the cpu as it is running to hot.

Smell of burning plastic call 911 :p

Start with a good dust out and work from there but seriously make sure your data is backed up
 
Your HDD is failing ... I'm also experiencing the same problem right now. The red light indicates that there is constant disk io which can cause havoc on your OS when shutting down or even booting up.

The solution as mentioned by all - BACKUP
 
I also get warm PSU area at the back of my case, but that's because of the Corsair supply putting out so much heat and power.

In your case, combined with the burning smell, I have a feeling your power supply may be starting to go. Only thing I can think of that would make such a smell.

As for the hard drive, the click sort of makes it obvious that your drive is soon going to head to the great hardware heaven in the sky. Backup everything, and replace the drive. Don't put it off, do it now before the drive just dies and you have lost everything.
 
It can also be a virus which's keeping the HDD and CPU busy for a long period of time, and thus overtaxing the PSU.

As others have said, start with basic maintenance, and check that all fans are turning properly, CPU heatsink is clean and thermal paste applied. If the situation still prevails, run a full system scan in safe mode with AVG Free or any other proper antivirus program.
 
have you tried pressing ctrl alt delete to check if some exe is taking up 99% resources?
 
killadoob said:
Buy a new computer and move into the 21st century :p
Click to expand...

...but I love my ole rig..:D

What I did see is that the HDD is almost full. I am busy backing up though..to dvd!!! I tried a portable hdd, but my usb doesn't have enough power. I'm basically gonna back-up, remove what I can and do a defrag. I also disabled winoz system restore as it could be a bug stuck in there (according to experts exchange). I was a bad boy in Feb, I had a registry failure and installed a fresh copy of xp over an old one..this has been the hird time, so who knows what cr@p is lurking hehehe ...if all else fails I format. Been a pretty stable pc for the last two years, pity that I keep fracking it up with warez and p2p:D

Anyways, willsee what I can do, but I agree its definitely HDD io problems:o
 
OK so I opened my box...OMG...cat pee'd through the vent...OMG ...ball's of dust packed around psu, cpu ...OMG....cleaned it out..wiped off the pee....busy giving it a test run...
 
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