Tet's Journal: The magic smoke escaped

I was at the race track over the weekend. During that time, my file server died. The symptoms indicated a faulty power supply. Fortunately, I keep a spare around for just such occasions. I swapped the new power supply in this morning (new as in brand new, still shrink wrapped), and powered it on. I wasn't expecting to be greeted by a loud bang, a flash of blue flame and a shower of sparks. I mean, I've had power supplies nominally "explode" before, but this is the first time I've actually had a real, physical explosion. I just hope it didn't fry the motherboard in the process. I'll find out when I get home this evening...

not confidence inspiring for the replacement brand

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

Wow - I've never seen something that spectacular from a power supply. I feel like the number of power supply failures that I've run into has gone up quite a bit in the last 4 years.

Odd that

[Shadow Wrought]

Its not often that a day at the track is safer than working on your server at home!

I had that quite recently too....

[jawtheshark]

Motherboard was fried too :-(

In other news, I broke my PSP while on vacation. (Actually, while going home) *sniff*