probably the power supply, in any case, the expensive smoke came out of some part and it's hell to put the smoke back in. seriously, it's more than likely a cap or diode blown in the power supply, and that probably happened because of age of capacitors overloading things. by the way, that smoke is not a great thing to breath, you should definitely air it out when something like that happens. it's not terrible to be exposed once, but it definitely won't help you.
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