Narrow escape for my Voodoo

[Boot_WB]

Yeah, burnt out a 25-pin to 50-pin scsi interface the other day by plugging the bugger in the wrong way.  
Nothing makes you move faster than seeing a red-orange flickering glow coming from inside your amiga tower.

Killed a BPPC once by plugging the 12v lead into the fan header instead of the 5v one - same glow, same smell, same feeling (slightly more painful due to being worth more).

btw - surely it is symmetrical since it is just passing all the lines straight through - that way you COULD use it either way round - it's only if you plug the voodoo card in back to front that you would do any damage (probably, not going to experiment though :-) )

[Boot_WB]

motorollin wrote:
What's the difference between it being the other way round and being back to front? :-)

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moto

Sorry, I was a little unclear:
When I said the wrong way round I meant the pci adapter could probably go in either way allowing the voodoo card to either lean to the left, or lean to the right - in either scenario the lines would pass staight through and the card would work.

By back to front I was referring to the voodoo card - in this case the vga port would be pointing towards the front of the amiga, and probably this would lead to an undesirable burning smell, and the sound of an amigan going "oshitoshitoshitoshitoshitoshitoshitoshitoshitoshitoshit"
:-)

It does mean that for your project you could have two pci slots leaning left, and two pci slots leaning right thus:



PS sorry about poor quality drawing - MSpaint via laptop mouse!!