oopsi, that was not good.. I remember we talked in 10F about hotswap, and i did almost live in the chat a PCI I/O card hotswap on old crap hardware.No need I already know the answer in real life
Back in the '90s I was an electronics engineer working in a research lab and had become the department's unofficial 'goto guy' for PC support (in those days there was no such thing as an IT department, not in the company I worked for anyway).
I actually had a colleague who tried to replace his RAM and forgot to power down first. In those days the slots were 30-pin SIMM and the OS was WfWG 3.11, but the results should be equally applicable to today's SO-DIMM and W11. He asked me to look at his PC as it would no longer boot.
Bottom line: He had fried his motherboard and I had to order a new one from the OEM.
That did work well but it needed steady hands and really move the card exactly straight up and down again, to avoid cross contact.
(This is not recommended if someone else reading this post now, its really stupid to do this)
But that was actually the most exiting thing i did with hardware the last 20 years, as i knew one tiny wrong move and the magic smoke would appear. *LOL*
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- Oldest intel 8088 up to P4 dual core
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