Capacitor Configuration

I went to work on my uncle's computer today and when the power button was depressed there was no power. But there was the smell of electronics oxidizing. An all too familiar and bad smell to have. I tracked to the power supply and when I moved the tower about I heard a rattle. Well since the supply would never work again anyway i decided to take the case apart to survey the damage. There was what looked like mouse fur and some metal ribbon kind of crumpled up. The rattle turned out to be the outer shell of a capacitor, It took me a few minutes as there was no bones or anything of that nature to figure out the the fur that was scattered all over the inside of the supply was in fact insulation and the ribbon was the coil inside the capacitor. It had literally exploded and shorted out the supply in the process, it also sent a surge down the line and fried the motherboard as well. It is about a 4 year old pc so the board was only 25.88 to replace. I can honestly say I had never seen a capacitor in that configuration before, and there would be pictures but my P800 is still broke and shall still remain that way until I find work so that I can afford to fix it. Till my next disaster, later.