I seem to be spamming my own messages.
anyway. I've successfully unsoldered the bypass capacitor as mentioned
before, which was internally arching(I confirmed that it was this, and
not 'glowing red hot' persay)
the PC boots perfectly fine, nothing seems to be exploding. so my
final question is, will it be safe to leave it like this long-term,
and still use the system for watching movies and whatnot, perhaps for
many hours of up-time per day?