So tonight I had a circuit breaker blow in my house and when I reset it nothing energized on the outlets.

I was able to find the faulty breaker by checking with a VOM and even when in the on position there was zero volts on the hot lead.

Since I had spares in the breaker panel I moved the hot lead over to another 20 amp breaker and I was in business, or so I thought.

When I plugged in my gaming machine the lovely magic smoke of burning components appeared and I quickly unplugged the power cable.

I removed the side panels to the chassis and smelled around and sure enough my PS unit smelled of that acrid burnt carbon smell 🙁

I removed it and checked the other components but nothing else seemed to be amiss, however, until I get a replacement I will not know if any other component took any damage or not.

I think I heard a pop when the breaker fried but can't be sure.

The interesting thing is that the other equipment appears to be ok including my file server where I am typing right now.

I was actually looking to get that replaced with another newer, more effecient unit as the now dead ps unit is over 6 years old now.

And I was looking forward to playing some more Borderlands 1 tonight too...