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My computer bloody exploded

Written by Pacdan

In my fucking face. What wasn’t dead before certainly deserves to be now, and it looks like my video card and the wireless receiver for my keyboard and mouse were already toasted. Why me? Why me? Why me? And it smells like burnt power supply in here again (for the uninitiated, it’s a fucking vile smell). I’m not sure I even dare to take it back out. The thing (the new power supply to replace the dead one) was sparking all over the place, I rather thought it was going to set something on fire. I reached for the switch on the back (scary) followed by unplugging as quickly as possible, but I fear the worst after having two bloody power supplies die in it in rapid succession. I think I’m going to have a fit, not to mention being even more traumatized about electricity than I was before (long story).

Update: Upon taking a moment to not be stupid, the declared graphics card death is just as likely - if not more likely - to be a motherboard death. Same thing happened the last time I had to replace the motherboard and virtually the whole machine.

Update 2: And given that it was overloaded enough to blow something plugged into the keyboard/mouse slots, motherboard would seem like almost an inevitability.