No, this one was brand new, bought because I'd previously been having power supply problems.
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Sean K - Oct 13, 2005 5:20:20 pm PDT #5066 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
DCJensen - Oct 13, 2005 5:27:18 pm PDT #5067 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Ah, okay
DXMachina - Oct 13, 2005 5:52:05 pm PDT #5068 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
Sean K - Oct 13, 2005 5:56:01 pm PDT #5069 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Um... Yeah. Unless you got some new after-market tesla coil add-on.
DCJensen - Oct 13, 2005 6:44:51 pm PDT #5070 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Whoops. That's the magic smoke. Without it, your computer can't compute well.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 2:28:40 am PDT #5071 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
DCJensen - Oct 14, 2005 4:06:46 am PDT #5072 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I hate it when that happens.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 4:17:28 am PDT #5073 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2005 4:19:11 am PDT #5074 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm just worried that it took something with it. It was a pretty loud bang, the most spectacular failure I've ever witnessed.
Was it preceded by a synthesized female voice saying, "Warning. Magic smoke containment failure in one minute."?
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 4:22:36 am PDT #5075 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nope, but I may have turned that option off when I set the thing up.
The other possibility is that it was attacked by a Lutheran space fleet from my kitchen sink. That would explain a lot.