in that case only PSU blows up, correct ?

- Never place a cooler on a CPU WITHOUT clipping it on at the same time.
- Don't use loose molex connectors to power up your drives. A small nudge against them has a large chance of causing at least data corruption.
- Test a new harddrive before putting any critical data on it.

I did that to with my CDwriter and he still works :p

I did it with a cd rom drive and it died to. I pushed something in the hole, so the drive would open (i forgot a cd in it). the drive didn't open, I connected it to the PSU of my machine. the drive opened immediately when it got power, but a chip inside the drive burnt

screen and switches do. PC worked normally for about 2 min, then turned it of. Still works :)

I hope so

(it was a switch btw, *kaboem*... not funny)

Don't be to lazy to reset the bios when changing cpu's

don't put a floppy without the metal protection on it in a drive....
the floppy drive of my LC II died because of that when I was 13 :-)

- Make sure that the red wire of your inverter makes contact with the red wire of your molex conector. The same for the black one.

And NOT the red one with the black wire and the black one with the red wire of your molex. Some of you may remember the big bang @ MM8..

- Due this little edge make sure that your volcano 7 isn't mounted upside down. Fried an Athlon 1800xp by doing that.

yeah I've also done it, I didn't have the proper inverter connector so I didn't know what was + and -.

pretty scary, I was just awake, and suddenly it goes BANG :wtf: