| I was working on an older Alienware computer once. Adding new memory and a more powerful video card. (Poor fools ordered an x300 for a gaming computer.) Dropped everything in. Easy enough. Turned it on...
Lights and fans went for a half second, then nothing... And it smelled like burning metal.
Turns out the power supply wasn't built to handle the load it was listed for. We shook it and heard one of the capacitors rattling inside. Even worse, it took the fancy new $300 video card with it.
Dropped in the old card and a backup power supply. everything worked again. And... According to the computer store, the card was broken when we bought it.
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