[plug] Warning: PC Hardware can catch fire.

[Ben Jensz]

Leon Brooks wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:06, James Bromberger wrote:
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>>Just a heads up to anyone else who likes having their PC hardware systems
>>ready and running 24/7:
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>>	http://www.james.rcpt.to/2002/2002-08-08-computer-fire/
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>>PC hardware can burn. I was lucky in that I didnt burn the curtains next
>>to the computer (or the rest of the house), but did manage to salvage a
>>SCSI card, 512 MB of memory, 60 GB of disks, CD-ROM, Floppy. Not so for the
>>very dark coloured video, network and firewire cards...
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>FOAF had their PSU explode violently, blew a hole in the plaster wall behind 
>the machine (think about back-to-back office desks), flipped the monitor over 
>the operator's head, crash, onto the floor behind them, deafened him for 3 
>days, totalled *everything* in the machine, of course. I wouldn't have 
>thought a PSU held that much energy but I guess a lot depends on how you 
>apply it.
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>Cheers; Leon
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I'm pretty sure what happened to this computer started with the PSU 
catching fire (due to a close lightning strike/surge):

http://frozen.3fl.net/images/misc/burnt/

It was the only computer left on overnight, none of the other computers 
got affected by it.  Not a very nice smell to say the least.


/ Ben