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[ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!
- Subject: [ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!
- From: fassl.tod at gmail.com (Todor Fassl)
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:29:53 -0600
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I'm going to say this is arcane magic, not devine. But this is why I
always cast a protection from evil spell on my servers before putting
them into production.
On 11/18/2014 11:52 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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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