4 Feb
2006
4 Feb
'06
1:59 p.m.
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Chris M wrote:
I assume you're talking about the routine
damaging
the monitor. But there are modern viruses that can
overclock your ram I'm told. What about the older ones
that park your hard drive head, then tell it to do a
seek...across the entire platter!
Moving the head to cylinder #306 ("parking the head"),
and then moving it to cylinder 0 won't damage anything on my machines.
Howzbout: "reflashing" the BIOS?
Although that does NOT actually damage any hardware, on some machines
the BIOS would then have to be unsoldered, and then reflashed on a
different (functioning) machine. a bit more hassle than an erased MBR,
or a wiped CMOS on a machine without a "SETUP" in ROM.