Yet Another HotSwap

my friend jsut hot swapped a network card. there realy should be a tally of these

he did what!? he hot swapped? I'm not up on the "lingo" nowadays but Ithink you mean he had his rig on and then he plugged in a network card? if so thats umm weird

no he (while his computer was on) took out an old network card and put in a new one.

I thought that instantly killed systems?

No sparks flew and the system stayed running? If so, did the PC detect the new card? I'm with JoT on this one, I figured it would fry the NIC and maybe the mobo too.

maybe thats why my old computer broke. hmmmm

Add this to the list of "things to NEVER do with your computer".

I've heard of it working before.

I took memory out of a pc (p100) while it was working once. All it did was make it freeze.

yea it stopped working. i always thought a dead system was assumed with a hot swap.

LOL, I remember a while back this guy Jimmy and I were messing with a super old junky machine at work...like a Pentium 100mhz. We were trying to get a NIC to work on it, and were tired of rebooting, so we yanked out the old NIC and popped in a new one. Then had it scan for new hardware, haha...

I would certainly not recommend doing it though. We didn't really care what happened to this system, it was REALLY messed up. If I remember, one reason we got tired of rebooting is that it would take more than a few tries just to get it to boot!

If you hotswap a card, you run a high risk of shorting something, and killing your board.