MrNybbles's Journal: Up in Smoke

At last Friday's LAN party Mike-two's computer had problems powering on. It had power; I saw an LED light on inside. He unpluged everything from it and I took a look inside.

Everything seemed fine. I plugged the power back in and turned it on. I said "Hey Mike, it's on!", looked down, saw smoke (light gray or white), screamed, and unplugged it.

Mike took it in to have it looked at and aparently a capacitor on it fried. The people looking at it said it probably was caused by a power surge. Since Mike always kept it on a serge protected powerstrip it was probably caused by a bad power supply.

Mike seems to be taking everything very well because he bought an extended warranty on the motherboard and because he has a 150Mhz Pentium to fall back on to.

Today's lesson: See? Smoking really is bad for your health regardless of if you are a human or a computer. :p

thank god for warranty

[cyrax777]

Took it in to Frys and the guy just pulled out my old MB tested everything else and popped in a new one. Swapped the PS as well. all i got to say if they offer you the extended warranty take it 30 bucks was worth the cost for peace of mind.