Same person who somehow knows shorted power supplies will be damaged
(in direction contradiction to an industry standard called 'foldback
current limiting') now knows heat damaged some components. He does not
say what components. He does not even know temperature that could
damage those components. He does not even cite manufacturer data
sheets that prove heat would be destructive. Somehow, he just knows
heat must have cause a failure only because a failure happened.

> ... so try and short the 0.5 A output of your favourite
> ATX powersupply and watch it go up in smoke.

I'll go one step better. This is a 1.0 A single chip power supply.
What does datasheet demand even for this far simpler supply?
http://www.tranzistoare.ro/datasheets/228/390068_DS.pdf
Thermal overload protection. Short circuit protection. Standard is
no damage from short circuit. Standard functions found in power
supplies for decades - even single chip power supplies. Even this
single chip power supply does what Intel's ATX power supply specs
demand. Short circuits do not damage standard power supplies including
those that meet Intel ATX specifications. Some people know otherwise;
will not bother learning from data sheets or other industry standards.

Mike: those who know that viruses can cause computer damage also
post hardware myths. A virus (or any software) that causes damage to
computer hardware means the computer hardware was defective by design.

Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> Bait? We have seen systems which died the heat death; is it important
> how this happened? I know for a fact that certain laptops do not have
> sufficient overheating protection and the systems will run hot and
> get damage or die. Sometimes in exceptional circumstances but sometimes
> also due to poor design (such as packages were the CPU will need to
> throttle back *IN SOFTWARE* when it is running for a while at fullspeed;
> design error, yes; do we know how to solve such errors; yes. Do people
> still make these mistakes, yes, they do)
> ...
>
> Oh, and so is the ATX power supply standard prescribes; but *not* for
> all outputs, so try and short the 0.5 A output of your favourite
> ATX powersupply and watch it go up in smoke.
> ...