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Re: DOS all platforms
From: Matt Burnett <marukka () mac com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:00:12 -0600
Actually I just remembered the viruses can break current hardware. There are many CPU's out there that can be overclocked in software. The PowerPC 750 (aka G3) cpu using in Apple computers is one of them. And I doubt anyone will try to argue that OCing can kill the cpu. On 1/23/04 7:40 PM, "Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:07:18 EST, James.Cupps () sappi com said:I actually saw the refresh issue kill a monitor about 6 years back. NT4.0 can't remember the service pack level. It wasn't a virus or DOS hack though it was a boneheaded admin. He then plugged that same machine (with the bad refresh rates) into another monitor and blew it to. Then he got fired.To be fair, if you learned your trade since the advent of multisync monitors, you may not even be aware that once there were monitors too stupid to put up an "out of range" logo if the hsync/vsync was totally bogus. It's surprising that 6 years ago, the site had *two* monitors ancient enough to be lacking the circuitry to protect them from that error. They were probably aged enough that they needed replacing anyhow. This of course ties into the "user error" discussion on the other thread - is this an error that *any* of us could have made, because "You can't toast a multisync capable monitor that way"? Who here actually *checks* each monitor they plug in to make *sure* it's able to multisync?
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- Re: DOS all platforms, (continued)
- Re: DOS all platforms Mark Renouf (Jan 23)
- RE: DOS all platforms Brent Colflesh (Jan 23)
- RE: DOS all platforms Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jan 24)
- RE: DOS all platforms Shawn Nunley (Jan 24)
- Re: DOS all platforms Matt Burnett (Jan 23)
- January 04 MDAC patch Geo. (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms Matt Burnett (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms Frank Knobbe (Jan 23)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Jan 24)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 24)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Jeff Kell (Jan 24)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Jeremiah Cornelius (Jan 24)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Patrick J Okui (Jan 25)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Erik van Straten (Jan 25)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Michael Cecil (Jan 25)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms ldreamer (Jan 26)