Thread: Is there any software related unrecoverable situation?
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borland is offline borland
2009-12-02 , 01:02
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Originally Posted by Jidi View Post
As I used to learn back in 90's, there's no software in this world that could do hardware damages, physically speaking. Even that is somehow possible to modify even the voltage on a processor nowadays, there is protection for such cases. My 2 cents would go to no.
There is software that can perma damage your hardware. Esp in 90's there were a couple of viruses, that were destroying HDDs, CRT monitors.
I work for a company that sells POS systems, we had an issue with the bios, that was causing the motherboard transistor to go bad. resulting in CPU fan shutting down and burning cpu (it is built-in so u cannot replace it) . BIOS update solved the problem.
Dont forget about Seagate firmware problem for 7200.11 (or 10?) series HDDs, that was leading to physical damage to the HDD.
I recall there was a problem with early betas of Windows Vista crashing Hard Drives too.