🚀 go-pugleaf

If he saw a spark then the printer was already screwed, apparenly with a
major short in it and the lpt port was wasted before he pulled the cable
off.

Frederick M. Selzer wrote:
> 
> I've also found printer to die, yes die, when being plugged hot.
> The customer said that they had changed printer all the time, but
> this time he saw a spark.....
> ie..  loss of a printer port, loss of a printer.
> Is it so much of a problem to turn off the power, re-attach the
> problem cable, and wait for that slow system to boot?
> fms
> 
> Wizard wrote:
> >
> > The one exception to this is keyboards.
> > In my experience plugging/unplugging a hot keyboard, there is about a
> > 20% chance you will loose the keyboard controller chip. This seems to do
> > cumulative damage so you might survive once or twice but your chances go
> > down rapidly after that.
> >
> > Jim Berwick wrote:
> > >
> > > While it is not reccomended, I have never damaged a computer plugging in a
> > > key board, mouse, speaker wire, printer, or phone line while the computer was
> > > on.  The companies tell you not to so if you do, you can't sue them to fix
> > > the problem for free.
> > >
> > > VIPRO wrote:
> > >
> > > > If there some possibility that the PS/2 port, mouse or some other part of
> > > > the computer can be damaged by only plugging the mouse while the computer
> > > > is on.  Why?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Rene Suarez
> > > >
> > > > PD:Please reply to me... thanks
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jim Berwick
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