Re: PC speaker

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 13:26:54 EST



On Jun 12 2007 16:19, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> >I'd say impossible. Just disconnect it from the motherboard.
>>
>> The days when hardware *relied* on software (hence, where software
>> could damage hardware) are over.
>
>Nice theory but you can destroy or render useless a fair amount of PC
>hardware via software, usually because the thing is *DESIGNED* that way
>for convenience. (Flash update interfaces without jumpers, locking
>interfaces for drives etc)

Let's just say the PC speaker was not designed to be proactively be destroyed.



Jan
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