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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4399486" data-attributes="member: 41321">I did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I was thinking that the crossed cable was an accident somehow, not something intentionally built into the cable.  The first time I used that cable for anything was on the old PC when it fried.  I had literally just taken it out of the box and the plastic wrapper.  This is why I was thinking its construction might be somehow flawed.And the power supply in the old DVR system isn't part of this equation at all.  I haven't touched that machine, and I only mentioned it because I wanted to replace it with the one that fried.Basically, there are these four machines involved in my story:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New PC: The brand new PC I just bought that is now plugged in with the cable from the old PC.  This appears to be working fine (except for a few minor "growing pains" that I think are related to the fact that it's having to download and install huge chunks of Windows Updates).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Old PC: The PC I'm replacing with the new PC.  This is the one that fried when I put in memory from Away's PC and used the cable from the new PC (which had never been used previously, not even on the new PC)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DVR PC: The PC in my living room being used as a DVR.  It's even older than the old PC and was not touched during this whole fiasco.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Away's PC: My boyfriend's PC that now has the memory from the old PC and is working fine.</li> </ul>The reason I suspected the cable is that the one time it had been used was when the machine fried.  I'm tempted to unplug the working machine and plug it in with the new cable to see if it works.  I was thinking I might plug it in and unplug it immediately if it shows any problems turning on, but even though it took my old PC a few minutes/hours to start crackling it's possible that damage was done right away but it just didn't become obvious until it started smoking.  I don't want to risk any harm to the new machine, though.  I suppose I could test it out with the older DVR PC, but it seems a shame to risk harm to a perfectly good machine, especially when I don't have a working box to replace it with at the moment.</blockquote>

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