"envoy"
Any insight/first hand experience will be appreciate !

Doesnt sound good. Check the mobo and cards to see if any of the
electrolyte (sic) dripped on them. This doesn't seem likely so it is a
bit of a long shot, but then Ive never seen a supply give it up as
dramatically as you describe.

All the parts of the capacitor were kept inside the supply. (But there
where part of it almost everywhere inside.)
By chance, the capacitor was located right in the middle of the supply and
along a huge radiator.
The remaining of the computer case is absolutly clear from debris.

(I saw more dramatical "give up" of power supply. But it was no in a
computer and even less in *my* computer !)

Ground youself and remove the cards and
mobo to make sure they are clean. If the smell is lingering after

I have already made that. They are as clean as they were before...er... I
even remove quite a bit of dust from them.
No trouble there.

That said, I have seen two power supplies go without taking out
anything else. Lucky me (throwing salt over my shoulder and clutching
my rabbits foot). However I was warned by the service tech when I
purchased the replacement for the first unit that power supplies can
sometimes kill other components while in their death throws because
they can create a substantial spike in the power, selfishly taking
whatever they can with them on their way out. You have my sympathy if
that is the case.

That's really my fear... I will try to grab from a friend another proc. to
see if it works. That should shade some light on my problem.

(Hope I will not fry this proc as well :-) !

On the good side, this is a excellent opportunity to upgrade your
system :-).
Yep. But this was my secondary system. Which is NT (home)domain controller,
hosting my Oracle database and so forth. I hate to think about reconfiguring
the whole thing...
What I loved with this computer, is that it ran flawlessly

Anyway, its an excuse to get a nice begging-to-be-
overclocked Athlon board.

And to go to water-cooling too ? :-)) Sadly, I lack the time to play with
it...
But that crossed my mind !

For this computer, I prefer a "no-trouble" solution. I had go even for a
PIII-1Ghz if any were stil available.
But, in the long run, it is not wise regarding the peripheral I will be able
to plug on such motherboard.

--Richard.