Abused, But Working Hardware Stories?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 28, 2004 @06:31PM from the hurt-me-good dept.

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."

1 of 1,352 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Once I installed... by MadCow42 · 2004-07-28 22:40 · Score: 1, Redundant

I once installed Windows on my computer... and it still ran! However, I didn't have much confidence in it, so after proving it was at least POSSIBLE, I wiped the drive and reinstalled Linux. :)

--
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.