First, the TLDNR version!
Good news is:
Computer's working again, Yayz!
Bad news:
It will die again. Nuuuuu!


Right so yeah basically last night just went out to visit my good ol' friend Poochie, shut down the comp no prob and hung out for a bit. Once I got home just wanted to check my e-mail and a few other things, tried to switch on the computer and heard a rather distinctive *snap* with no power going on the comp. So bit of poking and prodding around (I used to build computers for a living quite a few years ago so at least knew what to check) I found the power supply was definitely toast and sadly was the type where it was soldered in (Some of them you can actually just open up and replace the fuse). Well balls.

So got a new power supply today after work slapped it in, crossed my fingers and hoped for the best.

Good news is the computer is working again, the bad news is it's time is definitely short lived. seems one of my hard drives in my RAID got damaged but was able to back up what little data I cared about and wasn't backed up already. One of the fans is burnt out and the CPU fan isn't registering properly anymore (But it seems to work fine for now). Anyway, it's good enough to keep the comp running till it dies again and at that point I suspect I'll have to figure out something, as unless I can get a full time job again, I sure as hell cant afford a replacement computer :(

Ah well, we shall see how long it lasts and if it goes again I may be able to jury-rig something that wont risk burning the house down.