[Techie Humor] Don't Put The Molex Where The Ribbon Cable Goes

[krashkart]

Guilty as charged. Even with the power off there is still enough juice left in the system to frazzle a hard drive.


Here's another one:

I was helping a friend build his system one day. We had just finished plugging in all of the various power adapters, and after double checking the build we turned it on. Within a split second a wisp of white smoke wafted up from the case, and we looked at each other with wide eyes. The stench of melted insulation hung in the air like a bad omen. After switching off the power we discovered that some of the insulation on the wires supplying power to the floppy drive had bubbled and melted away. It turned out that he had plugged the Berg adapter in upside down. As his instructor, I was at fault for not properly double checking his double checking and pointing out the mistake. Anyway, that little misadventure fried the floppy drive and pretty much everything on the motherboard. Whoopsie!


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