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Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable

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Re: Are you sure?

I once plugged in an ISA card while the PC was running. I want to say it was a Sound Blaster AWE32

20+ years ago I was working on my powered on home PC, probably changing a fan or something on the go. A screw fell and landed on my AWE32 and killed the left channel permamently. :'-(

On another occasion (20+ year ago as well) I had a work computer without side panel because I was often testing different hardware with it. I inserted an Adaptec PCI SCSI card and hadn't noticed that the computer was on (noisy area, monitor sleeping), so I was amazed that Windows 2000 noticed a new card and started installing drivers without any problems.

Later I tried hot removing the same card to see what would happen and a BSOD ensued immediately.

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