On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd > got away with it before.
The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5 cable insertion! It made a little electrical "pop" sound and that was the end of that. Actually, I nearly fried myself once when hotplugging coaxial cable TV wire into my television while everything was powered on. The shock launched me -- caused me to launch myself, probably -- up into the air and against a door, fully upright, from a seated position on the floor. In case anyone is concerned: the TV was unharmed. :)
