[Andy from Beaverton]

I have recently bought a dual processor Mac and I only use my pc occasionally.

[Incorrigible]

Changing the polarity on capacitors was always fun in the engineering labs!

[MarkeyD]

I love the smell of dead silicon in the morning.

[discipler]

Awesome, take a photo.

[dagnabbit]

That 220V outlet is for your clothes dryer.

[asgardshill]

There's the problem right there - you let the smoke out of your hard drive. Every electronic device requires smoke to function properly. When you let it out or it escapes, the device stops working.

Get some more smoke immediately and refill your hard drive with it. It'll work fine.

[radiohead]

Years ago, I had a Wang word processor start smoking on me. It's a little freaky.

[mombrown1]

Thank G-d you can stil post on FR.

[ProudVet77]

So that Maxtor chip designed to detect Western Digital drives does work. Now the hard part is going to be using your warranty.

[aft_lizard]

My very first computer once had a major blo out like that except the metal casing on the drive blew wide open and the disk flew off its spindle, major power surge.

[26lemoncharlie]

HOT Bovine Scarptology will do that everytime !!

[sierrahome]

I'm always looking for a good excuse to give my wife as to why I need a hardware upgrade. I've smoked motherboards, CPU's, sound cards, power supplies. My latest "smoker" landed me a P-4 3.0 gig CPU, New Board, 1gig of ram and a new 19 inch flat screen. About once a year I say "let the smoking begin!" I have suggested that Frys and CompUSA offer free smoke bombs for married hardware freaks.

[martin_fierro]