Mikko Peltoniemi wrote:
So I was on the computer, then all of a sudden I hear BOOM, like an
circuit breaker tripping, and everything went quiet. The computer
was off.

I took a peek in the electrical panel, but no circuit breakers had
tripped. Odd, I thought. But I still didn't have electricity to
my computer.

Follow the BOOM. I would suspect a backstabbed contact on an upstream
outlet burned its way open after intermittent contact arcing.