I fried my computer. I didn’t mean to, but it fried anyway. It worked great Saturday night, then when I turned it on Sunday morning there was a *pop* *sizzle* and the smell of plastic turning on the grill. How do I love thee Newegg? Let me count the ways…
Three days later and I had the new power supply installed but the computer couldn’t make it to bios or Windows. OK, something hardware I’m guessing? I cleared the CMOS just for kicks. Luckily I have built a few computers with similar specs over the last year or so which gave me a few rigs for testing parts. RAM, graphics card, harddrives, and even the processor all worked fine when swapped. I’m thinking that either both PSU’s I tested with are giving shoddy power or the motherboard, like me, is just plain done.
SO… to buy a new motherboard for 1-2 year old parts or keep my rig as spare parts for the other computers and build myself a screamingly fast quad-core… I’ll get on that quad right after I pay back a few loans and do some other equally responsible adult stuff.
I saved a card from high school with a picture of a brick wall. Inside it said, “If ever you feel like talking to a man, beat your head against this card until the feeling goes away.” Today, that card could just as easily show a motherboard and speak of doing your own repairs. 
