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Only thing I can think of, maybe it's a bleeder resistor for that cap, and it failed by some kind of internal short which reduced its resistance (and increased its heat dissipation hence the blackened board)? But fails-short is an unusual failure mode for a resistor and 1 GΩ is pretty high even for a bleeder, so maybe we're misreading something.
It got really hot and the colours changed.
Yeah, I think you're right.