Was it Bill? Sorry, faulty RAM chips; I thought it was Lee who'd done that.
:-(

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"Ron Badour" wrote in message
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Ask Bill Starbuck about his IBM laptop "upgrade" experience and the
physical damage it caused :-)

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"Richard G. Harper" wrote in message
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Ask Lee Chappell about the dead laptop. :-)

Newer laptops are much easier to deal with as they generally contain
popular and known chipsets. Laptops from the Win95/Win98 era often used
specially-designed chipsets or standard chipsets that had been heavily
modified for portable use.

That said, I like your ideas about driver support and upgrading - in most
cases that should mitigate or eliminate most of the real danger involved.

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"PattyL" wrote in message
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I feel that I need to moderate Richard's warning somewhat. I'm not
saying that he's wrong but I feel that his warning may be overly
alarmist.