Ok I don't know whether I can blame Carrara 5 for this or not.... well I can... but not in the sense that it's bad... or even really the cause. I'm without my desktop which is where I run C5 from. I woke up yesterday to a dead machine (thank goodness for my laptop so I can still connect to the world) A few weeks ago I was smelling something burning when i would render... the heavier the the render the worse the smell. Cleaned the dust out of my custom machine and it got better... than yesterday I woke up and the machine was off. I never cut it off. Thinking any number of things could have happened... including my fatigued brain shut it down the night before... I pushed the power button. Nothing... pushed it again. Still nothing. Checked the connections pushed it again.... nothing. Called my dad who brought over his voltage meter... and we tore the PS apart... blown fuse... and not just a little blown. It was black as night. By passed the fuse hit the power button... never has anything sounded so good in my life. So now I'm without my machine til my new 600 watt PS arrives and I install it. I never realized how much I use my 3d programs until I couldn't access them. Anyway it's not really C5's fault... it loks like the culprit was a bad fan. It's the first time I've ever lost a PS... glad it was that and not a CPU. Thanks for letting me vent... I want my beast and C5 back. Christina < who is too old to be throwing temper tantrums.

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