Can't say I have but have often thought about it.I have lost motherboards by trying some unorthodox tweaking.
I think i fried the mother board on my XP computer a while back . Must be the reason it won't boot . You don't mess with a Computer inside with the power still connected i guess .
And You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim,
(sorry, couldn't resist.)
WayneGoodwin , did that once. i was in the way of the spark that flew out of the computer.
that's a mistake i have not yet done again.
Thanks for the warnings of things not to do
posted by dens
over 2 years ago
Sound stuff can be tricky. There are all sorts of driver conflicts that you will never figure out. I got a device to copy music from a Tape Recorder to the computer. Wouldn't work on the desktop machine.
No problems on the Laptop. But the laptop doesn't have anywhere near the drivers on the desktop.
The moral is that if a sound device is expensive be sure you can return it.
I guess the dumbest thing I did was while soldering, in a crystal to get upper channels in a CB base radio, decided to listen to it, been ok if I'd left the power off..
It was back in the 23 channel days and it was known the FCC. was going to open up more frequency to give everyone 40 channels, we got the jump, on everybody and added a external box, that had a 6 way switch we would mount a crystal and get 4 more channels, I decided to add one one crystal, to use up all 6 positions, smoked a fine, highly tune base.. that was back in 1977or 76' I think..
honestjohn, i gad stopped a cb shop and asked if my radio could have talk back. the guy hooked a laptop to it. found what he was looking for and started to solder. he fried my cb and his laptop.
he gave me another cb, but it was trash compared to mine.
Did somebody mention soldering iron? I made a few mistakes there until I found out there are some components that you need to switch the soldering iron off before soldering.
Sure a good thing to know i ain't the only one !
