[ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 12:58:39 EST 2014


Other damage...

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was preceded by a flash of magic arc then a sustained burst of magic
> fire.
>
> By then I had yanked the power cord. The now unidentifiable component that
> spectacularly failed had turned to a glowing slag ember. I had no idea
> solder could get yellow hot without just puddling in the bottom of the case.
>
> A video card failed and burned out the power supply.  No obvious evidence
> of the failure of the video card but the power supply was completely dead.
> New on was 100W bigger. That was enough to turn the failed component on the
> video card into a light bulb.
>
> Fun!
>


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