Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/13/20:30:33
Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> El día Wed, 12 May 1999 17:36:21 -0400, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
> escribió:
>
> >Outcome #3: Something terrible might happen. Worst case scenario (never known
> >anyone it has happened to, but it's possible): overwriting some buffered portion
> >of a hard-drive or memory mapped io could desroy data or hardware.
> Hardware? You must be joking.
Well, there's the old story about the non-multi-sync monitors that you could
break if you switched the mode too fast. There is also the old hard-drives which
software could tell the read-head to ram itself into the disk then spin. Both of
these aren't an issue on modern machines, but I'm sure there are very subtle,
difficult to arrange ways to destroy hardward on modern machines. I can actually
think of one way right now:
My machine's BIOS can control the voltage applied to the processor. If I were to up
it from 2V to say 5V, I would break something very quickly. And I know that software
can change it, because the motherboard vendor bundles some that could do just that.
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