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To: Tony Viola who wrote (62097)11/5/2001 4:47:38 AM
From: Gopher BrokeRespond to of 275872
 
A third party vendor board could jumper a 3.3 volt pin to a signal pin, or to ground, whatever. How do you protect against that?

Anything is possible. The question is should you bother.

Should AMD bother protecting against people removing their heat sink? Should Intel protect against people plugging the wrong graphics cards in?

And the key question, IMO - Should lack of protection against this kind of stupidity result in claims of hardware "unreliability"?


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