Narrow escape for my Voodoo

[motorollin]

I got a right angled PCI connector today as part of my "A1200 in an A1000 case" project  which will allow my Voodoo to lie parallel to the motherboard. I plugged it in just to make sure it works and powered up. The PSU fan spun up, then the system switched itself off. I disconnected the graphics card and realised that the PCI connector is symmetrical, i.e. with a notch at both ends, and I had connected it the wrong way round  :-o  I though best case scenario I had killed the card, worse case I had killed my Mediator, suicide case scenario I had killed both + my Blizzard 1260.

Fortunately when I connected the Voodoo back directly to my Mediator it all started up ok. Phew!

Another lesson learned :roll:

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moto

[motorollin]

I've never been caught out by static electricity. Though I'm always careful to discharge myself before handling my equipment :lol:

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moto

[motorollin]

Boot_WB wrote:
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 :-) )

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

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moto

[motorollin]

Oh I see what you mean now. Well the connector on the PCI right angle adapter is not symmetrical so it will only go in one way round. Unfortunately Maplin have discontinued the one that goes in the opposite direction so I'm stuck with one PCI slot for now :-(

I did think it was strange that the VGA connector was facing towards the front of the tower, but assumed it was just the way the adapter works :roll: Fortunately no harm was done!

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moto