Originally posted by lawrence171
Can ANYONE TELL ME WHAT THE HECK HAVE BURNED? I'm very................197';]a\]f\as]as'\ sad right now.............. (DAME THAT FREAKING COMPUTER! DAME THE POWER SUPPLY!x;['.];.][.]'r6.3]4.56;'.5].36)
Dame the Power supply? Are you from the 1920's? Okay enough of the joking.

First of all If its a PIII your Power supply is a ATX, which means unless you took a knife and cut the edges off your plug in, you CANNOT PLUG IT IN WRONG!

Second If the Power Supply started smoking, that means it had a short in it. So what you need to do is become Sherlock and find out where the short is.. Here's the clincher.. Do you have one of those nice Fuzzy Logic Buttons? I know you do. Whats a fuzzy button? No its not on your toy teddy bear. IT means that current is constantly flowing to your power button, which means your computer is on ALL the time.

More then likely that Shorted out your Power supply. But if Smoke Came from Your Power supply your going to have to replace it. As well as the power button. If your computer was off when all this happened you motherboard and things should be okay. If not you still have a 50 / 50 chance that you didn't fry anything.

As for your CDROM issue. You probably don't need anything over a 12x for your 166 MHZ machine, There should be some Mom and Pop computer shop around you that has some used ones, for like 10 bucks, US or Canada!