Follow up on my *#(&$($% computer

[Rabrrrrrr]

Okey dokey, I posted a while ago about this, and people had some great suggestions.

I figured first thing, let's the check the fuse - so I tore it apart, and vacuumed all the dust out while I was in there, and took the power supply off and even removed its protective cover.

No fuses on this computer. FUckin' thing, I don't know why not, but there isn't. So, there ya go.

So, I had the cover off the power supply (but it was still connected to everything), and I thought "I've cleaned it all out, let's see what happens". So, I plugged it in - and without even turning on the "on" switch, it exploded (smoke, large flash, large crack) and blew the circuit breaker in my home.

Fuck.

So, obviously the power supply is fucked.

But, now how do I get a new one? DO I need to get one for my specific motherboard? Are all power supplies equal in terms of the connectors they having out of them? And where do I go to find one? Tigerdirect, I imagine, would have one.

My power supply - and this is bad engineering, in this engineer's opinion - has all the power wires from the supply to the boards without any intermediary connectors (except at the boards themselves, there are plastic sockets). If I were to do these designs, I would have made the power supply have a plug on it instead of running the wires through it straight to the board, but, that's just me. Maybe it doesn't matter.

So, anyway, can you help?

Or should I take this as the opportunity to guilt-free go get me a new one and get rid of this 3 year old machine? I kind of hate to do that since everything else on it works perfectly fine and really has all the power I need at this time. But, it would be nice to have a new one, esp. one with a DVD burner.