Ok, so it's not quite the snow's fault, but last night's multiple power surges finally killed my power supply. 
It had significant problems starting up from the last time I actually turned it off at Christmas time, and was failing, but it died a good death last night.
New power supply in. Which is bloody annoying because I was toying around in the back of my mind with building a Sandy Bridge system this year but am holding off because I can't really spare the money as I pay down other debt, and I had to go out and buy a bloody $130 emergency PS anyway today when the ice and snow melted a bit. When I do build a new system, I'll have to buy another PS so my wife can get this box for her home office PC.
Now I have to shut down and go make it sorta pretty and close up the case so I don't electrocute myself. The new PS is nice in that it's modular when the old one wasn't, but I a) had to use an extra mod cable for the ONE remaining 4-pin molex inside because I didn't have extenders, b) the cables are far stiffer and more awkward so it won't be as clean as the custom built original, and c) I scratched my bloody desk that has been scratch free on the surface for 10 frigging years. Argh.
PCs. Can't live with them, can't blow up the ones you need with C4.
-Rand
It had significant problems starting up from the last time I actually turned it off at Christmas time, and was failing, but it died a good death last night.New power supply in. Which is bloody annoying because I was toying around in the back of my mind with building a Sandy Bridge system this year but am holding off because I can't really spare the money as I pay down other debt, and I had to go out and buy a bloody $130 emergency PS anyway today when the ice and snow melted a bit. When I do build a new system, I'll have to buy another PS so my wife can get this box for her home office PC.
Now I have to shut down and go make it sorta pretty and close up the case so I don't electrocute myself. The new PS is nice in that it's modular when the old one wasn't, but I a) had to use an extra mod cable for the ONE remaining 4-pin molex inside because I didn't have extenders, b) the cables are far stiffer and more awkward so it won't be as clean as the custom built original, and c) I scratched my bloody desk that has been scratch free on the surface for 10 frigging years. Argh.
PCs. Can't live with them, can't blow up the ones you need with C4.
-Rand
Most equipment runs fine with a bit of line noise imo. All this talk of line noise has reminded me of those enthusiast multi socket adapters they're pedaling to the morons in the A/V market made by the likes of Monster Et Al. 
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