A tale of woe.
Received some toys from everythinglinux today. The first item was a
stallion 4 port IO board with nice cables to run my modem bank. Plugged it
all in and thought while I had the machine powered down I would put in the
lcd display I had lying around so I could run lcdproc on it (way cool).
Anyway on powering up I smelt that bad burning smell, I shutdown and tried
to find it. Could not find anything and the smell was from no particular
direction. Powered up again, no smoke, okay forget that for the moment, I
wanted to get the stallion goinging.
Did an insmod on the stallion.o and ran the prog to create the
devices. Plugged the lcdproc into the first port and sent an echo to it to
see if I could get a "hello world". Well nothing appear so I again
thought, forget that I will try and get the modems running.
After a little while of changing config files I had one modem working but
not the other, the one on the first line seam to never show a TR
signal. Weird. I used ttyE1 and ttyE2 instead and it all worked fine. The
weird thing was that I could not get the cable out of the first socket, it
was really stuck in.
Now that I had the modems working I though okay back to the lcd screen,
lets plug it into the normal serial port. BANG, as soon as it touched the
machine with the serial cable from the lcd screen the machine powered down
in an instant, gave me the shock of my life. I then pulled out the lcd
screen to smell that indeed the bad smell did originate from there, I
pulled it out and threw it into the corner!
Whilst I had the machine powered off I thought I would try and get the
cable out of the first port on the stallion. I was very very hard to
remove, in fact the only way I could get it out was with extreme force and
a pair of plyers, and then I found the reason why. The bloody plug had
melted into the socket for about 2 or three pins! In getting it out it
ripped three of the pins out of the card cause they were embeded into the
melted portion of the plug. Bugger, shit and every other word under the
sun!
The final result is one new stallion board that works fine on three ports
but one looks like it had a fatal car accident occur inside it. Also my
lcd display has been trashed too. Quite an expensive night really.
The only consulation is that the cd burner I got at the same time is
working fine. I think I might go to bed now and cry myself to sleep.
Thanks for listening, I knew you guys would understand.
"Computers run on smoke, once the smoke gets out they don't work anymore."
Rodos
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