   NO! My computer!!!
  I went back to my computer to work on my game some more, and i discover its not turned on. When I left it was turned on, but when I came back it wasn''t. I hit the power button and nothing happened. I checked the power cable, and all was ok. I try again, and still nothing. I ask my family if anyone has been using my computer, and it turns out my brother had been playing Armigetron (or whatever that 3D Linux Tron game is called) and the computer mysteriously shut off suddenly.I''ve removed all the cards that were in the computer to see if one of them was messed up and preventing the computer from coming on. Still nothing. Right now I''m assuming its the power supply, but I don''t have another power supply to test unless I rip it out of someone else''s computer.What do you think? Power supply? I''ve never had a computer just suddenly DIE like that. It didn''t screw up the rest of the computer did it? I can''t afford a new computer right now! I mean, I built that computer myself a couple years ago! It''s my baby!  
  Actually power supplies burn quite often.I''ve never had any components of the computer fail on me other than the power supply, some people have had stories of hard drive failures too, but they aren''t as many as the power supply ones.My guess is 95% it''s your power supply, and 5% chance it''s the motherboard.The power supply is supposed to give you 250-300W, well, depending on the model of course. Take one of the 4-pin outputs of the supply, there are 2 black wires, 1 red and 1 yellow. The red one is +5v and black is ground, put about 1000 Ohms of resistance (that should kill it enough to produce only a dim light) on the red wire and connect it to an LED and the other end to one of the black wires and see if the LED turns on (make sure you plug it in the right way)  ;  Do this while the power supply is plugged in? What does it mean if the LED lights up? That the power supply is OK?  ;  Yeah, plug in the power supply and turn it on, see if the LED turns on.By the way, if the fan on the supply doesn''t turn on, don''t even bother with this test. It will obviously fail.  ;  Well, there''s no fan coming on. Nothing. Dead.Guess i''m gonna be getting a new power supply.  ;  pouya was helpful?! and he didn''t even use the words ''you''re ghey'' or ''cliff'' or ''die'' at all!    A CRPG in development...Need help? Well, go FAQ yourself. "Just don''t look at the hole."  -- Unspoken_Magi ;  First thing I would do is stomp a mudhole in your brothers ass then check the outlet, then the power supply.  Thats just me.  ;  I stuck my hard drive into an old Compaq of mine, and of course X freaked out, so now I''m in text mode. This is pretty sureal. I''m using Links to post.Anyways, I checked all that, so I guess tomorrow I''m going to be looking for a new power supply. I would order it from the internet, but by the time I got it I would have to go back to school, and I''d never get to use my computer for anything besides checking my email anyways once that happens.Its bizare, but my brother tried to watch my parent''s TV today and it mysteriously wouldn''t come on. Now its busted. Coincidence or...  ;  Three words:Check circuit breaker.  ;  As crazy a suggestion as that is (my computer is plugged into a surge protector, and other stuff on that surge protector is working) and even though I''ve even since tried other stuff in the same place as that computer (the Compaq I''m using now), maybe I should check anyhow.And if your thinking that cause of the TV, we''ve since moved another TV we had into there and used the same outlet, so that ain''t it.The power supply doesn''t have a built in surge protector, does it? There''s a little switch on the back of the power supply, but I tried it several times.  