Caught on fire!

axlecrusher

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I had just gotten done putting my computer back together from a slight mod. I plugged everything in and turned it on. Almost immediately smoke came billowing out of the case. Quickly thinking “Oh S**t!!” I turned off the power supply. Something had definitely caught on fire. After looking around in the case I discovered it was the power cable to the floppy drive. I had unknowingly connected it wrong, missed one pin, too far over. It was completely destroyed. I had to cut the cable off right before the previous molex. I just laughed it off. Here are some pics.

 

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Another pic

 

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And here is the mod. A black screen over the front fans.

 

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Last pic.

 

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Thats aweful!! but nice job on the mod...

-Xander

 

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Oh I forgot to mention the computer still works fine. And the fans were on when the pictures of them were taken.

Axle

 

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Poor thing! I dig the fan cover though.

 

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That fan cover is cool. I like the off center look of the two fans and the slightly unbalanced image of the large fan and smaller fan. It give a nice look to what would have been another boring symmetrical case bezel.

Oh and I'm glad nothing was seriously damaged.

 

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aw man, hows the floppy drive?

 

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that was lucky, everything else is undamaged?

(i would asume so, you said everything else works fine... )

 

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Stee said:

aw man, hows the floppy drive?

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I assume it is broken. The power cable is stuck on it now. Not to mention I made a big short in the drive. And yes I am very lucky, I don't know why the PSU didn't turn off, usually it does with a short. All is good except for the floppy.

Axle

 

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I would have had a heart attack and died if I saw smoke coming from my case.
(glad you didn't die )

 

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Well floppys are only 5-10 bucks so your good. Glad your ok.

 

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i think were all glad one of our Oc members is ok after a little fire...

 

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Or you could have let her burn (I know it'd be tough) and collected the insurance money and built BIGGER, BETTER computer