[ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!

[Jim Kinney]

It was preceded by a flash of magic arc then a sustained burst of magic
fire.

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.

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.

Fun!
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