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This sounds familiar. Around 2002 I bricked a Pentium motherboard while probing the SPI address space looking for the fan and temperature sensors.
by jdblair 6y ago
This sounds familiar. Around 2002 I bricked a Pentium motherboard while probing the SPI address space looking for the fan and temperature sensors.
- tzs 6y agoI bricked an expensive high end motherboard by ignoring the "Win98 or later" requirement listed on the box and trying to install Win95. Actually, two of them...when the first one bricked I assumed that it had just been defective, so tried again on the second one we had. It turned out that something in the Win95 device scan happened to trigger a BIOS flashing, what flashed garbage into the BIOS. I really hate old buses where there is no mandatory and standard form of device ID, so the only ways a driver can find its device are (1) ask the user, or (2) read and write registers at likely addresses looking for ones that respond the same way its device would hoping that at addresses where the is something that is not your device your commands don't accidentally make what is there do something terrible.