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This ain’t a post about BBQ. Unfortunately my computer suffered some serious injuries last night. I sat down at my desk and the monitor wouldn’t come out of sleep. Turned it off, on, nothing. So I look down and find the computer off. This is odd as I had been using it a few minutes earlier and didn’t shut it down. So I hit the power switch. Nothing. Hmm, maybe a loose power cord? There’s a lot of wires underneath my desk, it’s feasible that I would kick one loose. So I checked the power, unplugging and plugging in the cord. Flipped the switch on the power supply off, then on. Hit the power switch on the front. POP! Circuit breaker kicks, and I see smoke rising from the PC. Dang it! I just built this thing in the Fall. Good thing is everything is under warranty. It appears that the power supply went, and took the motherboard with it. It’s quite disappointing to me as I bought this high quality supply to avoid these kinds of issues. Oh well. I took it into a shop to let them figure out what got killed. I’ll build up a box to use in the meantime tonight while I do the warranty shuffle for a couple weeks.

For anyone who is curious, the PC was well built, ventilated, and had plenty of juice to spare. The 850 was driving a single Radeon 7850×2, AMD Phenom quad core, & 2 x WD Raptors.