Abused, But Working Hardware Stories?

RPI Geek writes "Everyone's heard the stories about people who, knowingly or unknowingly, abuse their computers. Personally, I've had a faulty power supply literally burn a hole through the motherboard, with the only ill effects being a dead PCI slot and USB ports. I'm curious as to what kind of abuse fellow /.ers have done or seen done to electronics while the hardware still worked afterwards. Soldered a broken keyboard PCB back together so that it worked fine? Taken sticks of RAM out of a running computer to see when it would notice? Overclocked a 386... to 386MHz? I'm interested in hearing any stories about abused-but-working hardware."

Comments

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Home Run

[John Courtland]

This site harbors some real gems, *sigh*...
First, you *just* said monitors COULD be over driven. Just like I did, I even disclaimed it in a similar manner. Yet you chose to write stupid shit. So, what the fuck? Why? Why be retarded and piss me off? Can't you read? FYI, there was at least one virus that exploited the VGA 0x3C0 write port.

Second, from what I remember, the disk failure virus simply ran the drive until it failed. It didn't overspin it, it just wrote and wrote and wrote until the drive gave up.