[nzlug] Bugger!

[cr]

A couple of nights ago my Linux box went 'pop!' when I switched it on.   I was 
half expecting to find it was a blown capacitor in the power supply but 
instead a little transformer (not the main one) had shorted a turn or 
something and blown all the solder off two of its terminals.    Bugger! (as 
Toyota would say).    Probably not easy to match.

So I got a new power supply, but now I have no monitor picture.   The hard 
drives start up and the CD drives light their lights momentarily after I 
press Reset, but that's it.   No BIOS beeps or anything.    I presume that 
means the power supply took a perfectly good motherboard and quite possibly a 
perfectly good Athlon 2000 CPU with it when it went.    BUGGER!

I'm not sure I need advice, I suspect I just need sympathy.   <g>

cr