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."

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YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP TOO by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-28 18:47 · Score: -1, Troll

Windows jokes aren't funny, and quite frankly your Linux kernel is fucking pathetic in comparison to the NT kernel. The Linux periphery is even more pathetic.
Re:So far I have attempted the following: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-28 20:11 · Score: -1, Troll

A couple of car batterys is enough. Have you tried to hold on to 230 ~V... ...Just don't touch the ground.

Don't try this at home it might kill you and will if your stupid enough.
Re:HP48 by ccmay · 2004-07-28 20:12 · Score: 0, Troll

Good job. Too bad you didn't kill the slime.
Stay armed - Stay free - Fuck the cowardly Europeans
-ccm

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