Monday, October 20, 2003

My computer's power supply exploded in my face I was cleaning the dust off of it. I guess I must've cause some static discharge while I cleaned the ventilators. It must've been trapped inside some dust bunnies that I unintentially stuffed inside the power supply as I whiped it with a tissue ( I'm never wiping the inside of my computer with a dry tissue again, helllllo rubbing alcohol! ). After I plugged it back in, the fan came on momentarily and everything looked fine. Next thing I know, there was a loud BANG! A few chucks of stuff flew out of the power supply, leaving a puff of bluish cloud circling above the computer. If the computer isn't mine, this would've been hilarious. I bought a new power supply and installed it today, everything works fine. I decided that if I'm gonna go through with such operation, I might as well upgrade my processor. I went and bought a PIII-933Mhz today, but my cranky old motherboard is fighting it, only recongnizing it as a 700Mhz. I'm heading home to continue wrestle with it right now ( I'm in UT typing this up ). Fight the good fight I shall.

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