How Not To Install Computer Hardware

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How Not To Install Computer Hardware

Posted by timothy on Monday October 20, 2003 @07:43PM from the do-your-worst dept.

ssassen writes "Most computer hardware websites tell you how to get your computer hardware up and running properly and not RMA it after the first boot. Hardware Analysis takes a different approach and tells us exactly how NOT to install computer hardware. They document many of the pitfalls that'll sound familiar to many enthusiasts and have some great pictures of what could go horribly wrong during an upgrade. Very funny, and guaranteed to put a smile on your face!"

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Repost! But improved! by eaglebtc · 2003-10-20 19:43 · Score: 5, Informative

See this article Much improved, though, with pictures to boot!

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Dan's Data Did it first. by Gwala · 2003-10-20 21:28 · Score: 4, Informative

Dan's Data: Step by Step 3: How to destroy your computer

It's a much funnier article - and still relevant, despite the fact that it's been there for ~5 years now. :)

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Re:Repost! But improved! by a.koepke · 2003-10-20 21:49 · Score: 5, Informative

Yes, and they reproduced it from Australian Personal Computer Magazine, January 1998... of which I have copy.

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Re:PS2 Mice by Carewolf · 2003-10-20 22:26 · Score: 2, Informative

The PS/2 Aux (mouse) protocol is designed for hotpluging. It just happend that older Windows version didnt support it (neither did XFree864.0).

It you've fried your motherboard, it was something else you did.
Regarding how-not-to articles... by p3d0 · 2003-10-20 22:32 · Score: 1, Informative

I refer you to this.

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Re:poor server by ssassen · 2003-10-20 23:10 · Score: 3, Informative

We're actually on a 100Mbit connection right on the AMS-IX, one of the fastest internet gateways in Europe. We're doing just fine actually, we just needed to reconfigure Apache to allow for more simultaneous users, the server is not even close to being taxed. In case you're wondering what we're running, I've listed the configuration below.

- 2 x Intel 2.8GHz Xeon with HT
- Tyan Tiger i7501 motherboard
- 2GB of PC2100/DDR266 Registered DDR memory
- 4 x Seagate Cheetah 15K3 HDs, 37GB, U320 SCSI
- Adaptec 2200S U320 SCSI RAID controller
- Disks are run in a RAID10 configuration

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Re:Repost! But improved! by damien_kane · 2003-10-21 05:11 · Score: 2, Informative

Not quite;
From the last page of the article:

in case you're wondering we did not use any part of a similar article from Dan at Dan's Data, but we both covered all of the requirements to utterly destroy your computer with little effort.

Try again...
Re:poor server by flossie · 2003-10-21 05:41 · Score: 2, Informative

According to netcraft:
The site www.hardwareanalysis.com is running Apache/1.3.28 on Linux.

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