for your safety

[Kateweb]

Never never nave and I mean never ever under any sercumstaces plug in an IDE cable wile the computer is hot.

I say this beacuse I have found wile cleaning my appartment the first power supply I ever blew up I kept it to remind myself not to be stupid.

[rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD]

IDE is not hot swappable! :-)

[Kateweb]

well I know that now sadly this did happen when i was like 17 , I am now 24. I have learnd a Lot since then. I was just amused I did not lose it the last time I moved it's a nice paper weight.

[Guest K1u]

wile

I see you know how to spell the word while correctly

:twisted:

Just messing with you we all make typos

[Kateweb]

Piss off

[degoba]

play nice you two

[rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD]

If you to don't stop now I am going to turn this server right off! :-)

[renegadecanuck]

Do people REALLY not have anything better to do that to correct typos and critisize them for it?

[cooper]

I actually did this with a floppy drive once. This was in the old days when floppy drives had a GAZILLION jumpers on the back of them and very little in the way of description for what everything was.

I had just removed the old, clunky 5.25" floppy drive from my machine. That drive REQUIRED to be A: so I managed to set the 3.5"floppy drive to B: using the jumpers years before. With the 5.25" one gone I wanted the 3.5" one to be A: again, so I tried a jumper combo, turned the machine on. Didn't work.

Turned it off, tried a different combo, turned it on. Didn't work.

Turned it off, tried a different combo, turned it on. Didn't work.

Turned it off, tried a different combo, turned it on. Didn't work.

...

Eventually I got so tired of having to turn the machine off and on again, that I figured 'fuck it' and began changing jumpers while the machine was on.

Now, this particular floppy drive had the drive mechanism somewhat exposed on the bottom. There was this huge disc at the bottom that would rotate along with the floppy. As I was changing jumpers all of a sudden that thing began to spin up like crazy, and make a clear "whooooOOOOOOO" sound.

I unplugged the thing, and it was really hot to the touch. Of course, that was also the last time that drive moved.

So yeah, unless it's advertised as such, things aren't hot-swappable.

[Duelus]

you about to be on my top list of annoying chicks

[Guest ABC]

whooooh offensive stuff ....

dont touch a bad psu while the power is on ... i did that and my arm spasms every now and then :)

[renegadecanuck]

you about to be on my top list of annoying chicks

Dude, considering that your a Microshaft Certified Noob, shut the fuck up man. I find you MUCH more annoying.

[Darren Kitchen]

When I was 16, at a LAN party, I plugged in a floppy molex incorrectly. Not sure how I managed to get it one pin off, but it was in a dark corner of this case and I couldn't exactly see what was going on. I pluggin in the floppy, started to wonder why it wasnt booting off the bios flash disk i inserted. Went to unplug it and it was burning hot to the touch. After a nice little 2nd degree burn I unplugged the fried PSU and realized my mistake. The molex had melted onto the floppy.

[Guest ABC]

shit dude ... that sounds nasty .. I've never been to a LAN party .. not enough geek's about here ;)

[VaKo]

Never suck live power cables... the rainbows might be pretty but the kick hurts...

[DLSS]

When I was 16, at a LAN party, I plugged in a floppy molex incorrectly. Not sure how I managed to get it one pin off, but it was in a dark corner of this case and I couldn't exactly see what was going on. I pluggin in the floppy, started to wonder why it wasnt booting off the bios flash disk i inserted. Went to unplug it and it was burning hot to the touch. After a nice little 2nd degree burn I unplugged the fried PSU and realized my mistake. The molex had melted onto the floppy.

did you keep it ? these days tehy call that modern art XD