masterwit's Journal: My motherboard: a soothing blue, red, and yellow sparked flame

It was Tuesday and I was back from college and my little brother needed a new PSU as his current one went into insta-brick-mode. After running some basic tests I placed an order for a new PSU giving him my older one (which his machine runs flawlessly now). Feeling "smart" I soldered a connection off a traditional 4 pin molex power plug to power a fan independent of my motherboard. However, the connection I used I realize only now that when I plugged it in, I somehow through my array of wires managed to cross the red and yellow wires (the psu 12V rail didn't like this). Upon powering up my psu using the front button / motherboard, I generated a deep blue fire about 1 cm in diameter with a red tip and yellow sparks directly over a capacitor on my north-bridge. Now I am no hardware guy, I will never pretend to get one unless I get some education there and experience in the field, but this wasn't good. Three days later with the smell still lingering in my room (yes I am using the "traditional fans on that") I am still waiting for a replacement motherboard and new cpu thermal grease. I can only hope that my cpu was not damaged in the incident, but being that I had my computer powered off within 1-2 seconds of it powering on, I believe it is safe to say the cpu probably survived. Anyways this whole ordeal is very traumatizing and I cannot wait to escape this HP laptop I am currently using.
On another note, anyone else have some entertaining horror stories or something that can top a tri-colored flame?
if you read this journal entry and it looked different, I rewrote it due to it being very hard to read...