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Offline Ilwrath

Re: 3.0 Roms uninstalled in A4000 with pliers
« on: December 13, 2002, 08:06:05 AM »
Not too much daring on Amiga... I've always been very careful with them...  About the riskiest thing I've done is maybe accidently plug a floppy drive cable in upside down or unplug a serial device while the machine was powered up...

Now, my x86 boxes... you name it...  Heck just recently, I accidently pulled a graphics card out of a machine that I forgot was plugged in.  (ATX-style machines don't really shut off, with the soft-power...)  I remembered I hadn't bothered to unplug it as I was removing the card and seeing a green LED on the motherboard still glowing...  Didn't seem to harm anything though.  (shrug)

Thinking about it, I used to be fairly abusive to my C64s, too... I remember fixing fuses by removing them and replacing them with a small copper wire, and other such nonsense...  ;-)   I guess it's just the Amigas that get pampered.
 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: 3.0 Roms un-installed in A4000 with pliers
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2002, 10:40:42 PM »
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The last time i sweated profusely in front of a computer was when i had to Flashed a Bios...don`t laugh.


Hey, don't laugh, but in a past life (as a sys-admin) I destroyed a (fairly expensive) laptop by not paying attention and flashing it with the wrong file.  We shipped it back to the vendor and claimed we didn't know what happened, the user just said it stopped working.   :-D   Anyhow, the short is, BE CAREFUL when flashing a bios to a device.  (unless it's one of the new PC mobo's with the dual BIOS chips, then go ahead and blast it.)