All these stories remind me of the time I didn't seat a SIMM
correctly, switched on the power and saw a puff of smoke come out of
it. Looked around - nobody noticed. Switched the power off,
reseated the SIMM, switched back on and - BINGO - the memory still
worked.
Or then there was the time I was reassembling some Compaq server
which had been mis-behaving quite a bit. Percussive maintenance
*may* have been used at some stage during the process. You know the
way you sometimes have bits left over ? When I had the whole thing
back together I noticed something tiny on the floor. It was some
sort of electronic thingie like a capacitor or something. OK, so I'm
no electronic engineer, but I'm sure it should still have been stuck
to the motherboard. Still, the thing still worked.
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