Today I had my first ever hardware casualty going up in white smoke! I actually started laughing because with all of the machines I've built and fixed I've never had something actually fry on me. I have a little Q6660 system in the office as a data storage server. When attempting to connect to the mapped drive it wouldn't respond and I couldn't login to the server remotely. The lights were going on the machine so it appeared to be hung up. I force shut it down by holding the power button and gave it a little time to be off. The second I pushed the power button I heard a fizzling sound and could smell it burning, quickly unplugging the power from the machine in-case of fire.
This is just one of many of the CoolMax brand PSUs I've seen bad, but the first I've witnessed die. I already popped the top on the PSU to locate the fried goods which appears to be a transistor actually (not caps like I suspected). The on-board fuse was also blown, little good it did.
The machine was built by another local shop back when the Q6660 was hot stuff, a customer upgraded and left the old machine with me. The case and fans were cleaned on a regular basis and had a very VERY easy life. Just one more reason to stay away from the cheapo low end brands like CoolMax.
Here is to hoping it didn't take anything else with it during the poof of glory.
Model: Coolmax CX-450B