Gassing Off - Motherboards that Smell?

dmauer asks: "I recently purchased what ought to have been my Dream Machine. An uber-fast dual Athlon with oodles of speedy RAM, a Geforce4, and a hard drive big enough to choke a horse (all in a snazzy aluminum case, even). So I get the thing home, set it up, and proceed to install Debian, making sure all my hardware is working nicely, etc., etc., and then I realize that there's a problem I hadn't anticipated. It smells." Usually when consumer electronics have a distinctive smell, something is wrong. Has anyone else run into such a problem, before? Assuming this isn't a electronic or health problem, what can one do to eliminate the odor from the immediate area without resorting to periodic fumigations?

it farted

[Anonymous Coward]

yep, it had to have farted.

It's Debian

[Anonymous Coward]

type "apt-get remove odor" and that should do it. Let that teach you to heedless select everything in tasksel ! Always unselect the "workstation that stinks so people will leave me alone" option.

I had this happen to me...

[RedWolves2]

This happened to me, I got her home unwrapped her and found out that she stunk. I dumped her the next day and meet my wife shortly there after.

We have been married for three years now and have two wonderful children.

The lesson is I guess take it back and get another one.

Are you kidding?

[tswinzig]

There's NOTHING better than that "new computer smell."