I should know better...

Dammit. I really should know better. I made a stupid mistake yesterday.

One of my salesmen brought in a client's system to be upgraded. Simple motherboard swap. This is an old system too. It was being upgraded from a 386 SX-25 w/ 512KB RAM to a 486 DX-33 w/ 8MB. Wooohooo! Anyway, the salesman brings the system to me and I was about to do an initial boot to make sure everything is kosher before I begin. But of course, the system has a monochrome vid and I have no monochrome tech monitors. The salesman tells me that the system was just pulled out of the client's office and it was working fine there. So I go ahead and swap the board with the "new" one ;) and put an old ISA VGA card in it to test. I hit the power and *POP*, *sizzle*, $h1t! :mad: The power supply was faulty and it destroyed my board, my RAM and the vid card. :mad: :rolleyes: :mad: I should have known better than to work on a system without booting it first, even if my salesman tells me it's a working computer.

Ok, that rant's over. :D It's not like I lost some high end parts here, but it's more the frustration that it even happened.

Simply mistakes are usually the ones that hurt us the most. I'm sorry to hear the pain.

Atleast it will be in thefront of your mind so you won't have to go through it again.

NEVER trust a salesman, even if its one that works for you.

I've got about four bucks in quarters in my desk if you wanna replace all of that hardware ;)

[quote]Originally posted by iateyourcat:
<strong>I've got about four bucks in quarters in my desk if you wanna replace all of that hardware ;) </strong><hr></blockquote>

Heck, I've got a mobo, 486 dx2 66, 8 mb ram and several vga boards sitting here collecting dust, if you paid shipping I'd send it to you.

I also have some "legacy" parts available....

[quote]Originally posted by FatalException0E:
<strong>NEVER trust a salesman, even if its one that works for you.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I'll second that.... :D

Sorry to hear that it happened...

The oldest thing that I have lying around is a Voodoo Banshee. I either give my old parts away to family or sell them while they are still worth something