damned magic smoke

First off, anyone local got a SATA->USB adapter frob I could borrow for a while that would let me convert an internal HD as an external USB drive? (The old PC had an externally-facing SATA hookup, so some of my backups are on an internal type HD.)

I let the magic smoke out of the power supply on my home desktop computer week before last - poked around and saw that a capacitor had exploded. Oops. I eventually picked up a new power supply and some extension cables (because the case is kind of huge) and while I think it's cabled up right, it's not working. I hear a little relay click in the power supply but nothing happens besides that, so I'm guessing something is stupid. I'm feeling a bit annoyingly stupid mostly because the state of the art has progressed a bit since the last time I built a PC from scratch (it was this century, but not very far into it, as I recall), and I'm having the frustrating experience of feeling stupid for something that I feel *should* be well inside my sphere of general clue.

Due to various other annoyances, this has all exceeded my ability to deal in the short term, and I have some deadlines for having a comfortable desktop environment (web-based training that I'd rather do from home starting Monday and I had some maintenance window work to do this morning). I decided that I didn't want to do that stuff on my laptop and since the old desktop machine was a few years old, I used it as an excuse to pick up a new desktop. And a new monitor because, hey, dual-monitor setup is fun. (Over/under, here, which is a bit different than the side/side I'm used to at work). My choices were a bit limited because I didn't want Win10 (I'd tried upgrading the previous machine and rolled back because it had some hardware incompatibilities), but I found something at microcenter that was sufficient unto the task. I spent part of yesterday downloading ALL MANY OF THE THINGS and checked that I had everything to be able to do my maintenance window this morning and the training class tomorrow. I considered dragging the new chassis to work yesterday to use giant firehose network bandwidth there to download everything, but this box only has DVI and HDMI and all the monitors at my desk are VGA and if I had to go home to pick up the DVI/VGA adapter, I may as well just hang out at home anyways because it really was too nice a day to sit in a basement room.