One day my hand-me-down custom mediocre computer decides it won't start up at all - no power supplied to the machine at all when you try and turn it on. So I open it up, have a look and can't figure out what was wrong (younger me didn't really know all the insides of a PC just yet). After checking out everything I possibly could I thought it would be a good idea to flip that red switch on the PSU from 240V (UK Voltage) to 115V to see what happens without even considering the consequences of my foolish actions.
PSU fizzled, popped rather loudly and black smoke and liquid poured out from the unit. Nearly shat myself thinking it would go up in flames unless I unplugged it. Thought it friend every single component in the case after sending double the voltage into the system but it was back up and running once my brother replaced the PSU. Didn't have much to lose on that comp since it wasn't connected to the interwebs so I used it for typing reports and Fallout 3
PSU fizzled, popped rather loudly and black smoke and liquid poured out from the unit. Nearly shat myself thinking it would go up in flames unless I unplugged it. Thought it friend every single component in the case after sending double the voltage into the system but it was back up and running once my brother replaced the PSU. Didn't have much to lose on that comp since it wasn't connected to the interwebs so I used it for typing reports and Fallout 3