Dammit. I really should know better. I made a stupid mistake yesterday.

One of my salesmen brought in a client's system to be upgraded. Simple motherboard swap. This is an old system too. It was being upgraded from a 386 SX-25 w/ 512KB RAM to a 486 DX-33 w/ 8MB. Wooohooo! Anyway, the salesman brings the system to me and I was about to do an initial boot to make sure everything is kosher before I begin. But of course, the system has a monochrome vid and I have no monochrome tech monitors. The salesman tells me that the system was just pulled out of the client's office and it was working fine there. So I go ahead and swap the board with the "new" one and put an old ISA VGA card in it to test. I hit the power and *POP*, *sizzle*, $h1t! The power supply was faulty and it destroyed my board, my RAM and the vid card. I should have known better than to work on a system without booting it first, even if my salesman tells me it's a working computer.

Ok, that rant's over. It's not like I lost some high end parts here, but it's more the frustration that it even happened.