That happened to me. Power supply lost its ability to regulate and went
ballistic.

Basically the crowbar protection kept the +5 and +3.3 lines down, but
anything that used +12 volts was dead afterward - modem, soundcard, hard
drive, motherboard.

Cheers,

Bob

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