Something like this happened to me. I had a Compaq computer where pin 1 was labled wrong on the motherboard (I didn't know it at the time) and I only had a non keyed IDE cable, so I plugged it in and turned on the computer. Well, the hard drive started pouring smoke and there was a small fire on it (there was some melted stuff on the PCB on the underside of the HD). I immediately got a Keyed IDE cable and found out that Compaq did pin 1 backward. Anways, the Hard Drive still worked for 2 years after that. It wouldn't work as a boot drive for some reason though, but worked great as a slave.
Interresting, so if I read this right it is better to have gone backrupt than to have bad credit, becasue a company could refuse to hire you based on bad credit, but cannot based on the fact that you declared bankruptcy. That seems a bit strange to me.
I know. I could never get Cinelerra installed and working either. Now, if virtualdub was ported to linux, that would be killer as out of all the Video Editing apps I have used on Windows, nothing beats VirtualDub.
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Something like this happened to me. I had a Compaq computer where pin 1 was labled wrong on the motherboard (I didn't know it at the time) and I only had a non keyed IDE cable, so I plugged it in and turned on the computer. Well, the hard drive started pouring smoke and there was a small fire on it (there was some melted stuff on the PCB on the underside of the HD). I immediately got a Keyed IDE cable and found out that Compaq did pin 1 backward. Anways, the Hard Drive still worked for 2 years after that. It wouldn't work as a boot drive for some reason though, but worked great as a slave.
Interresting, so if I read this right it is better to have gone backrupt than to have bad credit, becasue a company could refuse to hire you based on bad credit, but cannot based on the fact that you declared bankruptcy. That seems a bit strange to me.
I know. I could never get Cinelerra installed and working either. Now, if virtualdub was ported to linux, that would be killer as out of all the Video Editing apps I have used on Windows, nothing beats VirtualDub.