Originally Posted By: peter
You're relatively lucky: I had a PC once short 5V to 12V, which had the effect of blowing the motherboard, the CPU, all the expansion cards, all the hard drives, the CDROM, and the tapestreamer. Fortunately the PSU shut down before anything caught fire, or even got as blackened as your connector.

Peter
Now that is an expensive toaster!
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