skaven, you do indeed have some amusing stories
Just today while talking to my friend about my blown caps, he brought up something that I hadn't heard of before in regards to computers.
I used to work with him as a computer technician and the department we were in had several homebrew machines put together a few years back. Well, recently (in the last month or so) they have all died. He said he opened up the case and was surprised to find the inductor next to the AGP slot to have ruptured and left charred debris throughout the case. Every one of the machines had the same inductor gone.
it seems several of us here (who have replied) have had several capacitors blow all of a sudden. Does anyone know if it is that we suddenly have them blow or do a few blow and we dont notice it and by the time we notice it that several are goners? Just out of curiousity here.
JustDisguy, curious about the hard drive brand? I have had 3 hard drives die on me and 2 were western digital (had both replaced, and they werent so dead I couldnt recover my information), the other was a Maxtor. I refuse to buy maxtor anymore. The drive died with a mechanical failure somewhere. I rebooted my system and went from fine to hearing a loud clinking sound. I opened the case and immediatley found it was the hard drive. It was so bad it would try for a while to figure out what was there and give up. I never did recover any of the data on that drive.
Fuschia coloured smoke sounds interesting though