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Another Case of "The Magic Smoke" Escaping

Sometimes it is better to leave PC gear alone rather than work on it, get sloppy, and then forget something that kills it.

I put together my third PC, the “alternate” that I wanted to use as my server in the basement, but that I had left by the wayside for a while. In my quest to “get it done” I hurriedly slapped everything together and screwed everything back into the case. It looked good at the time, anyway.

Upon applying power I was met with the distinctive smell of cooking silicon, and a small waft of “magic smoke” slipped up past my side. Now the motherboard doesn’t even power on and I likely cooked the CPU and the motherboard. I got in a hurry and got sloppy somewhere, and the PC paid the price.

Now I have to decide what to do with the parts: go off and see if there is another motherboard worth building a server around or write this project off until I retire another PC. Bummer.