Dtere
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So anyways, for the second time in 6 months, i blew something up in my computer. 
Anyways, i traveled from Denver today, and moved back to montana. I plugged in my computer, it seemed to be running fine. So i start to play some half-life after letting it run for a little while (30 min.) Soon into the game, my computer just flat DIES, everything goes off. Not 3 seconds later i hear a loud pop, like a firecracker went off. So in a hurry, i removed the cover. I smell burning coming off from inside the case. I track the smell to the power supply.
So my question is, how likely is it that if a power supply (blows up?) is ruined, what is the chances of it ruining the rest of my system? I did not see any problems with the rest of it, also no burning smells from the rest of it (mobo, cpu, ram, etc).
Next question, 2 months ago, i was at Best Buy and had them check out this EXACT same power supply. They said it would work fine under my system (no changes were made to the system in two months), that there was NO problems with it whatsoever (i didnt have a tester, so i made them do it). So do i have the right to force Best Buy to buy me a new power supply, or atleast get a refund of my money ($40 ish?)
Anyways, i traveled from Denver today, and moved back to montana. I plugged in my computer, it seemed to be running fine. So i start to play some half-life after letting it run for a little while (30 min.) Soon into the game, my computer just flat DIES, everything goes off. Not 3 seconds later i hear a loud pop, like a firecracker went off. So in a hurry, i removed the cover. I smell burning coming off from inside the case. I track the smell to the power supply.
So my question is, how likely is it that if a power supply (blows up?) is ruined, what is the chances of it ruining the rest of my system? I did not see any problems with the rest of it, also no burning smells from the rest of it (mobo, cpu, ram, etc).
Next question, 2 months ago, i was at Best Buy and had them check out this EXACT same power supply. They said it would work fine under my system (no changes were made to the system in two months), that there was NO problems with it whatsoever (i didnt have a tester, so i made them do it). So do i have the right to force Best Buy to buy me a new power supply, or atleast get a refund of my money ($40 ish?)
