On Apr 25, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Mark Cassino wrote:
Remarkably - the processor and memory chips survived. Evertyhing else was cooked.
The CPU has its own regulator which must have been tough enough to protect it from the upstream nastiness. I guess the memory must either run off the CPU supply or have another regulator of its own.
I spent a good three hours on my wife's laptop yesterday trying to figure why it was totally locked up. Finally found a notice on Trend's page that a certain combination of Windows updates and PC-Cillin updates would cause this problem. Once I found that it was a simple matter to get things working, but it makes you realize what a house of cards Windows systems are.
I've brought down my Linux system with stupid software on more than one occasion. The machine didn't crash but its memory usage went so high that it was near-impossible to even log in due to all of the swapping.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
