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From: wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Interupt conflicts
Keywords: PC Bus
Message-ID: <[1580.2]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 89 03:00:03 GMT
References: <1875@uceng.UC.EDU> <[24ea313d:5029.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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>The owner told him that he would have to buy a new mother board.  He said the 

>mother board had smoked because two boards were set on IRQ 4.  He said it also

>destroyed the hard drive.  He now refuses to fix or return the PC to him,

I've never seen permanent damage causes by duplicated interupts.  I *have*
seen this kind of problem caused by misaligning a power connector or
installing chips backward.  Perhaps the vendor has a legitimate interest in
keeping the evidence out of your friend's hands...