Electricity = Evil

[JacobM5727]

other then being our best friend, it is also pure evil
these pics are related to the thread:
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t69295.html

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what you are looking at is an area on my case (Antec lanboy - aluminum)
which was burned through, and made a little hole

the accident also killed my NIC
im lucky nothing else was damaged.. so remember, do not try to unplug things from powerstrips when they are on

[MDS]

lucky you are

[Telexen]

Not sure how you managed to burn the hole...

[Skywalker[TSG]]

Nasty !!

[Skywalker[TSG]]

Also 140W power ? ?!?

man thats way to little , you need a bigger PSU unit , I'm not surprised that it fried

[win2kuser]

Unplugging something from a power strip should not cause that!

It looks to me like a stray wire or something touched that spot and shorted out.

Is there anything touching or near the spot?

If you havn't fixed the reason why that happened, you are dealing with a potentialy fatal electrical/fire risk.

I would recommend getting the case and psu checked out by a competant electrician.

Thats just MO anyway...

[MDS]

on light Al it wouldn't take much even a DC Power supply from a printer or modem/router hiting the case could cause this. Just watch your cords better and don't keep the power strip behind the computer mount it behind or under the desk

[A.K.Arkane]

hmmm. interesting nexttime have a video cam watch you PC case 24/7 so wee have some taping of it..LOl to look over. were ya drunk when this happen.. and I know Do ya happend to play any firest person shooter games? at that time.. maybe a nade blow a hole in you case..Lol

[JacobM5727]

my other computer is the 145w one, this one is 330 or somethin

and i dont really know how it happened.. i wiggled the plug for my stereo on the strip, then i saw sparks flying, i was pretty much like,

w...t...f..

also, all my wires are pretty much organized, there are no bare ones or anything like that either