Alright, I bought a new power supply for my exploded PC last week.

Today, I finally took the power supply out of the box, unplugged the wires noting where they go to, and removed the old exploded one, and tried to fit the new power supply in the empty space where the old one used to be.

All was well until the last step.

The new power supply, although the guy at Fry’s Electronics said that it was “standard-size” and that it should work, turned out to be the wrong size. While it should work theoretically, the physical dimensions of the device makes it impossible to secure it to the system unit and prevent it from moving or, even worse, detaching and crashing down through the five expansion cards below it.

So…I have to now take it back to Fry’s, return it, and show the dude my old power supply and see if they carry those as well.

No PC for another few weeks :/

~DC