Other damage...<br><br>On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">It was preceded by a flash of magic arc then a sustained burst of magic fire. </p>
<p dir="ltr">By then I had yanked the power cord. The now unidentifiable component that spectacularly failed had turned to a glowing slag ember. I had no idea solder could get yellow hot without just puddling in the bottom of the case.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A video card failed and burned out the power supply. No obvious evidence of the failure of the video card but the power supply was completely dead. New on was 100W bigger. That was enough to turn the failed component on the video card into a light bulb.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Fun!</p>
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