A minor explosion...

Well, I suppose it had been a long time coming, and all the tell-tale signs were there, but my computer blew up on Friday evening.

There was a bit of a high pitched schreeching sound and a smell like someone had pulled forty Christmas Crackers at once.

Then a bang and a flash and all was dark.

So, I ventured inside the computer, which was more colourful and a lot more dusty than I thought it would be and sought advice from Jon, who is a person I talk to when I have computer problems, and he assured me that it was the power pack.

As I bought the computer ages ago and it had a mere (as it turned out) 300W power supply, apparently I shouldn't have added 8 more USB ports, a DVD rewriter, a memory card reader, a second hard drive, a new sound card and bluetooth and expected it to cope...

So out came the old power pack and, thanks to speedy service Novatech, who allow you to reserve an item on their website and pick it up the following morning, even on a bank holiday weekend...


(Yes, I know there are a lot of wires. But sensible people mark where all the wires plug into before unplugging them to make life easier. Like I say, sensible people do that...)

...and in went the new one. A mammoth (possibly) 550W of power which would probably run the computer and the central heating without the risk of setting fire to the house.



And so, eventually, all the plugs were back where they were supposed to go and it works. It's even quieter than before and doesn't go blue screen quite so often. Even the wireless keyboard seems to work, and nooooooot doooooooo thiiiiiissss like it was before.

And if you think it's mending my computer which makes me a geek, wasn't Doctor Who sad last night?? :-(