Lost a machine this morning. I came home to smell that smoldering electrical smell and nearly went into panick mode as I couldn't immedietly find the source. Naturaly fearing my house was on fire i search every where attic walls pluggs. Finally i found the culprit the light was off in the pc room and i seen a spark and a flicker and low and behold a 17in monitor was smoldering and on fire inside. After dealing with the blaze and replacing the monitor it seems it took with it the video card that was tethered to the other end a x850xt. So maybe after a while when my nerves calm i will whip out a crust old agp card to and try to mend the box.

dang sorry to hear bout that. At least it wasnt more than that.

Reseated the video card and all was forgiven , well minus the crt fire.

Damn man, glad that didn't spread.  Making me think twice about leaving my equipment on unattended now.

Wow, that's pretty intense.  I'm glad to hear that everything is fine.

 Thats sucks. sorry to hear about that. but I guess when you have as many comp's and monitor's as you do your odds go up a bit huh

bummer, good thing thats all it was.

Whoa - never heard of that happening before; glad you caught it in time!

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6323910

At least your no the only one man.

That would totaly suck [:'(]