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.

are you running a old system or is it new? if your pushing your pc that hard, ide sugest liquid cooling for it.

I built it a lil over a year ago... no budget to build a new one or move to liquid cooling. Wish I had the money though. Besides I think it turned out to be a faulty fan in the power source.

I've lost at least two computers to bad power supplies. You should've seen my temper tantrum hehehe. :D

I think over the last few years some brand names may have let the standards slip. My brother just found his top brand power supply was undervoltage on one of it's drive cables. o_O

Quality on most supplies is the pits. Pays to get good ones. Got to be careful taking a ps apart tho. Fan is one thing, but you can really get hurt inside one of those PS.Only thing worse is messing in a monitor or TV w/o knowing what your doing.

man, back in the day (98) a bought a name brand 600w PS, im still using it, its rather nice realy, wouldnt buy one today form that same company (not naming name, cuse thats just rude)

LOL on not naming names. ren_mem... that's why I let my dad open the PS and play in it. :P Just kidding he's retired military and now works on electrical equipment so he's trained to do stupid stuff like that... not sure is the stupid stuff training came from the military or not. :P Not dissing the gov'ment. Thanks for keeping me company while I wait for my new PS C~

Well, glad your being safe. :D I have seen some people so some crazy stuff.