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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2001 18:30:40 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no keyboard
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105051825540.95873-100000@beastie.saturn-tech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010505165940.H18676@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> HA! :)  Back when I was much younger I got a Pro-AudioSpectrum16
> I was playing the jumper game with it trying to find a free IRQ
> for the beast, at about 4am with my eyes half shut from being
> exahusted I forgot to power off the machine before inserting the
> card.
> 
> I got a nice very bright blue arc of electricity from the PAS to
> my IO controller.  I screamed and quickly hit the power.
> 
> Remarkably the both the PAS and IO board continued to function
> until they were decommissioned several years later.

hehe... Yup.  I've done some strange ones over the many years now.  :)
I once started yanking the power connectors off the MB with the power on,
(at about 4am, of course :) ) and only noticed because I happened to have
pulled the one with the negative supplies first, so the machine was still
running, but the video was all blue and washed out because the DAC on the
video card was getting no negative voltage used as reference.  :)

Still worked fine.  Your arcing takes the cake, though.
I can hear the little yelp, though.  I've done THAT too many times.

YIPES!  What am I doing!?!!

yeebers...  :)

That's what we get when trying to make hardware work at 4am, right?

Later......						<Doug>

P.S.  The InPort mouse and card still work.  I should go dig 'em up again.
      This mouse came with a lifetime warranty, and you better believe if
      it ever quits, I'm going to demand a replacement from Microsoft.  :)



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