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Wow, Tivo are a bit behind the times. I heard about the discontinuation of VCRs months ago. It's why you can now pick up a decent dvd-recorder for less than $AUD300 nowadays.
sean ... the fact you are also having problems with the ps/2 ports, along side the hdd problem, strongly suggests a faulty mobo.
Sean, I dismember. Did you ever try another power supply?
No, this one was brand new, bought because I'd previously been having power supply problems.
Speaking of power supplies, a loud cracking noise just came from my main machine, followed by the odor of electrical smoke. That can't be good.
Um... Yeah. Unless you got some new after-market tesla coil add-on.
Whoops. That's the magic smoke. Without it, your computer can't compute well.
Yup. The smoke seems to have escaped completely (probably when I took the side panel off), because the machine is dead like a thing that is dead.
I hate it when that happens.
Fortunately, power supplies are cheap. I'm just worried that it took something with it. It was a pretty loud bang, the most spectacular failure I've ever witnessed.