In human years, my desktop is getting on enough that I should be looking for a nice retirement home to put it in where they'll blow the dust out of the drive bays once a week, help get it into sleep mode each night, and scan it for viruses hourly. It should come as no surprise that a few days ago the power supply (pictured here) just gave up and conked out.
It may have had something to do with the memory upgrade I was attempting to install (for a total of 2GB baby! XP's gonna scream) which I apparently only got partially seated before turning the power back on. While I didn't notice any Magic Smoke leaving the motherboard, the scent of something burning coming from the power supply led to my hunch that turning it off was probably the appropriate course of action. Subsequent efforts to revive the system failed, and tonight I took advantage of our trip to Ankeny for dinner (where the restaurants are not closed due to flood-related water shortages) to pick up a reputable brand of replacement power supply from Best Buy.
As you can see from the mysterious blue lights in the background of the picture, my desktop is back up and running. Who knows, maybe I'll get another seven years out of it!
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